TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Bell,Clara AU - Waring,James TI - Louis Lambert AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lambert_(novel); Release date is 2005-02-01; Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Louis Lambert" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1832. Set primarily at a boarding school in Vendôme, it follows a boy genius obsessed with metaphysical philosophy and the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg. The story focuses less on plot than on the protagonist's philosophical theories, explored through his friendship with the narrator—revealed to be Balzac himself. Drawing heavily from Balzac's own childhood experiences, including academic punishment and social isolation, the novel serves as a fictionalized autobiography that examines themes of spiritual enlightenment, genius, and madness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1943 ER -