by Honoré de Balzac · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080701121
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«Le Père Goriot» is the French realist novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Flammarion in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Set in Paris during the Bourbon Restoration, the novel interweaves an elderly father who has sacrificed everything for his daughters, an ambitious young man seeking to rise, and a mysterious criminal thirsting for revenge. In the work, Balzac portrays love, money and corruption as forces that cut across family and social life.
The work belongs to La Comédie humaine (volume 23) and was originally published in 1835.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and French literature, including those approaching the work in a school context.
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.
