Resumen de Balzac Invents Fake News—and the Modern World: Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac

Peter Brooks

• Balzac's novel of an initiation into Parisian journalism presciently dramatizes the creation of organs of fake news, and the destruction of principles of belief and authority that follows—all, as he sees it, an inevitable part of capitalist modernity and the coming of the cash nexus.