by Honoré de Balzac · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402005847
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«Papá Goriot» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Bruguera in paperback, with 313 pages, in Spanish.
In the Paris of the French Restoration, Eugène de Rastignac arrives at the Vauquer boarding house determined to make his way in high society. There he meets old Goriot, a ruined elderly man who has given his entire fortune to his daughters, and discovers the contradictions of a city where ambition, marriage and appearances shape destiny. The novel portrays the moral corruption of a society obsessed with money and status.
This edition belongs to Bruguera's Libro amigo collection (no. 129). The work is part of La comédie humaine, in its Scenes of Private Life, and was originally published in 1835.
For readers of classic novels and students of nineteenth-century French literature who want to approach La comédie humaine.
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.
