Lucien de Rubempre continues his climb up the social ladder with guidance from Vautrin. Balzac's virtuoso style structures the social fantasy within the framework of the most effective popular novel. But he goes beyond these codes by elevating Paris, the site of every passion and every crime, to the level of myth.
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