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The Illustrious Gaudissart
Honoré de Balzac
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"Subscribers are fools who never can be brought to understand that to go ahead in the intellectual world they must start with more money than they need for the tour of Europe," say the speculators.
Consequently there is endless warfare between the recalcitrant public which refuses to pay the Parisian imposts and the tax-gatherer who, living by his receipt of custom, lards the public with new ideas, turns it on the spit of lively projects, roasts it with prospectuses (basting all the while with flattery), and finally gobbles it up with some toothsome sauce in which it is caught and intoxicated like a fly with a black-lead. Moreover, since 1830 what honors and emoluments have been scattered throughout France to stimulate the zeal and self-love of the "progressive and intelligent masses"! Titles, medals, diplomas, a sort of legion of honor inve. . . Read More
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'L'illustre Gaudissart' is a satire on the representatives of a new occupation in the 19th century - a travelling salesman or a commercial traveller. In this story the illustrious Gaudissart, an artful, self-assured, boastful and eloquent commercial traveller is outwitted by an insane villager.
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Simpático, satírico y picaresco cuento corto en el que el destacado y exitoso viajante de comercio, el ilustre Gaudissart es víctima de una broma de pueblo que lo lleva a enfrentarse con el loco del pueblo, quien es el que logra salir victorioso ante el intento de Gaudissart de hacerlo comprar un se
Honoré de Balzac-L'illustre Gaidisart
"Il se nommait Gaudissart, et sa renommée, son crédit, les éloges dont il était accablé, lui avaient valu le surnom d’ illustre. Partout où ce garçon entrait, dans un comptoir comme dans une auberge, dans un salon comme dans une diligence, dans une mansarde comme
Me kete novele kushtuar teresisht nje karakteri Balzak deshmon mjeshterine e tij portretizuese.
This is another of Balzac's short stories that are more of an extended anecdote than a tightly focused event a la Hemingway or Henry James. In this case, a French salesman gets the best of a supercilious Englishwoman by appealing to her innate snobbery. It's good for a broad smile, but it's more of