by Honorato de Balzac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423915439
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«Papá Goriot» is the novel by French writer Honoré de Balzac, published by Espasa-Calpe, S.A. in paperback (238 pages, in Spanish).
Written in 1835, the work is set in Paris during the French Restoration, at the Maison Vauquer boarding house. There, the elderly Goriot, ruined by giving everything to his daughters, and the young Eugène Rastignac, who aspires to enter high society, meet; between them, ambition, family, and social corruption are portrayed.
This 1973 edition belongs to the Colección Austral and presents the translation from French by Joaquín de Zuazagoitia. The novel is part of «La Comédie Humaine» (number 23 in the series).
For readers of 19th-century classics and French fiction seeking a story about ambition, family, and social criticism.
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.
