by Honoré de Balzac · Editorial Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 8410018002149
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«Papá Goriot» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Editorial Bruguera in paperback (313 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Goriot, ruined by devotion to his daughters, and the young Eugène de Rastignac, seeking to make his way in Parisian high society, share a boarding house in a Restoration Paris marked by money and appearances. Balzac shows social ambition, hypocrisy, and the dark side of paternal love in one of the peaks of nineteenth-century realism.
The novel belongs to La Comedia Humana. The edition was prepared by Carlos Pujol.
For readers of classic French fiction and nineteenth-century social literature.
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.
