Pere Goriot (Cliffs Notes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822010038 ISBN 13: 9780822010036

Publisher: Cliff Notes, 1960

Synopsis

This French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.

This concise supplement to Honore De Balzac's Pere Goriot helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.

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Review

Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch.

About the Author

A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cliff Notes
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0822010038
• ISBN 13: 9780822010036
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72
• Editor: Limouzy Pierre F.