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Originally published in serial form during the winter of 1834–1835, Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. [1] It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction.
Père Goriot Summary. Next. Chapter 1. For 30 years, a widow named Madame Vauquer has run a shabby yet respectable boarding house in an obscure, downscale Paris neighborhood. In the winter of 1819, seven boarders are living there. These include an idealistic young law student named Eugène de Rastignac; a shrunken, elderly pair named ...
Le Père Goriot, novel by Honoré de Balzac, originally published in French in the Revue de Paris in 1834 and published in book form in 1835. The novel is considered one of the best works of Balzac’s panoramic series La Comédie humaine (“The Human Comedy”), and it was the first to feature characters.
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Honoré de Balzac, Burton Raffel (Translator), Peter Brooks (Editor) 3.85. 59,976 ratings2,991 reviews. Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin.
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Père Goriot is afflicted by a stroke. He soon becomes delirious, muttering incoherent words, revealing also his extreme love for the daughters who have left him, one to go to a dance, the other to protect her fortune. Goriot dies blessing his daughters, with only Rastignac and Bianchon, a medical student, at his bedside.
Le Père Goriot [a] ( French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is set in Paris in 1819.
