Louis Lambert (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Honoré Balzac
- First Published: 1832
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: 1811-1824
- Setting: Vendôme, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Intellectuals, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Romanticism
- Locales: France, Vendôme, France
Characters Discussed
Louis Lambert (lwee lahm- BEHR), called Pythagoras by his schoolmates, a sensitive young philosophy student at a private secondary school. He is an intellectual prodigy subject to flights of mysticism, resembling a youthful Balzac. As he enters boarding school at the age of fourteen, he is slight but powerful and dark- haired, with a pronounced forehead and striking eyes. He is tanned and healthy, but after only a few months of a rigid school regime, he becomes pale, sickly, and depressed. Having been accustomed to guiding his own education, he cannot adapt...
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