Le Père Goriot

Name: Le Père Goriot
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ISBN: 9782080171764

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« Un brave homme - pension bourgeoise, 600 francs de rente - s'étant dépouillé pour ses filles qui toutes deux ont 50 000 livres de rente, mourant comme un chien » : telle est l'indication que l'on peut lire dans l'album de Balzac qui contient le germe du Père Goriot. Mais ce roman est bien autre chose que le récit d'une agonie. C'est l'« éducation sentimentale » de Rastignac, jeune provincial monté à Paris, son apprentissage de la vie, de la société et des hommes. C'est aussi le portrait d'une ville livrée au plaisir, où les « honnêtes gens » se déchirent entre eux. C'est enfin Vautrin qui, sous des dehors bon enfant, cache un visage démoniaque.
À l'image de la pension Vauquer, Le Père Goriot est un carrefour où se croisent les destins. Roman multiple, clef de voûte de la Comédie humaine, ce traité des passions n'ignore rien de ce qui est humain. Voilà pourquoi il n'a pas de morale.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) 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. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and his work has served as a framework for other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."