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Penguin Classics edition, translated by Olivia McCannon; introduction by Graham Robb.
I’ve been very impressed with most of the classic authors I read for the first time over the last year, but I’ve got a few reservations about Balzac. In the first two chapters (out of a total four) I found the prose, too often, stodgy and inelegant. There were numerous sentences that could be divided into two or three with no loss of meaning, and it felt as if there were too many words used where fewer could com ...more
I’ve been very impressed with most of the classic authors I read for the first time over the last year, but I’ve got a few reservations about Balzac. In the first two chapters (out of a total four) I found the prose, too often, stodgy and inelegant. There were numerous sentences that could be divided into two or three with no loss of meaning, and it felt as if there were too many words used where fewer could com ...more
Pere Goriot is the story of a father who ruins himself to indulge his too thankless, heartless daughters. Eugene Rastignac is a young man of aristocratic blood and abject poverty, who comes to Paris to study law and takes up residence in the same boarding house with Goriot. The “father” that is added to Goriot’s name is a taunt from his fellow boarders, who know little of his actual situation, while it should, in fact, be a testament to the only relationship in life that has meaning for him.
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