by Honore de Balzac · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440210586
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«El tío Goriot» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Ediciones Orbis, S.A. in hardback (190 pages, in Spanish).
A novel that portrays ambition and decadence in Restoration Paris through two characters: the elderly Goriot, who sacrifices himself for his daughters, and the young Eugène Rastignac, who aspires to enter high society. Set in the Vauquer boarding house, it exposes the contradictions of family, marriage, and social corruption.
It is part of the Scenes of Private Life of The Human Comedy; it was originally published in 1835. Translation by Rafael Cansinos Assens.
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.
