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Does journalism affect capability of writers?

 

In his classic novel, Lost Illusions, the French writer Honoré de Balzac chronicles the life of Lucien, a talented but finicky poet and novelist from the provinces, who goes to Paris in search of literary fame, but poverty drives him to seek solace in journalism.

He fails to steady himself against the waves of treachery in the sea of journalism and ends up a bitterly failed writer.

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