Caroline’s Reviews > Lost Illusions > Status Update

- every character is either morally bankrupt or moral to the point of stupidity
- provincial scenes all drag
- join a new group of people (publishers, playwrights, journalists, scalpers, etc.) and someone will inevitably monologue about how you need to take the advantage when you can get it
- just think Balzac explains too much
- some of this may be translation losing the prose
- still fairly fun