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EAN13
9791041801336
Éditeur
CULTUREA
Date de publication
24 mai 2023
Nombre de pages
350
Dimensions
21 x 14,8 x 1,9 cm
Poids
453 g
Langue
eng

Father Goriot

Honoré De Balzac

CULTUREA

Prix public : 21,90 €

Father Goriot, today considered one of Balzac's most important works, is part of his novel sequence The Human Comedy. It's the first of Balzac's novels to feature recurring characters, a technique that he famously developed in his subsequent novels. Set in Paris during the Bourbon Restoration of the early 1800s, Father Goriot follows Eugène de Rastignac, a student born to noble roots but little means, as he tries to climb the social ladder in Paris. The impoverished Goriot is staying at the same boardinghouse as Rastignac—and Rastignac sees opportunity in Goriot's richly-married and elegant daughters. The novel has been widely praised for its realist portrayal of Parisian life of various social classes, and its deep influence on French literature is still felt today. While it had chapter breaks when it was initially serialized, Balzac removed them when compiling his definitive edition of The Human Comedy, a change that is preserved in this edition.
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