In lost illusions, Balzac makes us follow the steps of Lucien Chardon, An idealistic young poet who leaves his native Angoulême to try his luck in Paris, in the 1820s, A pivotal period where modern capitalism begins to build.
Pauline Bayle's adaptation focuses on Lucien's trajectory, His meteoric ascent and his terrible fall. She also purifies the style of the author and highlights her talent as a dialogist, His taste for words of mind and murderous distributed. Through a refined theatricality, of formal formal precision, It gives way to the interpreters: they are 5 to embody around twenty characters, ignoring genres and generations, flamboyant, mean, ambitious, crushed and twirling.