本书摘录:
Preface
_ Title: Two Poets (Lost Illusions Part I)
Author: Honore De Balzac
Translated By: Ellen Marriage
PREPARER‘S NOTE
Two Poets is part one of a trilogy and begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is centered on Lucien‘s Parisian life. Part three, Eve and David, reverts to the setting of Angouleme. In many references parts one and three are combined under the title Lost Illusions and A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is given its individual title. Following this trilogy Lucien‘s story is continued in another book, Scenes from a Courtesan‘s Life.
TWO POETS
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DEDICATION
To Monsieur Victor Hugo,
It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet at an age when other men are children; it was your fate, the fate of Chateaubriand and of every man of genius, to struggle against jealousy skulking behind the columns of a newspaper, or
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