by Honoré de Balzac · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781544770642
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«Le Père Goriot» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback (158 pages, in French).
Set in Paris in 1819, the novel follows the student Eugène de Rastignac, the mysterious Vautrin and the elderly Jean-Joachim Goriot, a father ruined by his daughters. Balzac interweaves their lives to show social ambition, paternal sacrifice and the moral corruption of Parisian society, a foundational work of literary realism.
The work belongs to the Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie Humaine, where it occupies position 23; it was originally published in 1835.
Suitable for readers of 19th-century classics, students of French literature and those who want to learn about the origins of realism.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
