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For the last forty years the elderly Madame Vauquer, nee de Conflans, has kept a family boarding-house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The pursuit of lucre,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Old Goriot (Paperback)
I thought that this was a superb novel, containing an intriguing plot, rounded characters, along with an examination of thought-provoking issues.Despite the title, "Old Goriot" is really the story of the law student Rastignac's attempts to make it in Parisian society. Rastignac is living at a run-down boarding house, the inhabitants of which include Old Goriot. There's a mystery surrounding Goriot and his connection with a couple of young women. The key phase of the novel, however, is when Rastignac comes under the influence of the cynical Vautrin. There are echoes of other works in the novel - Old Goriot could be seen as a Lear-like figure, Vautrin as a kind of Mephistopheles. The main theme, however, is the ruinous effect of the pursuit of money and position for their own sakes: other more decent and human values are sacrificed on the altar of personal gain. Vautrin tempts Rastignac with a means of advancing his place in society, a method totally founded upon an amoral view of the world. At the end of the novel, it's up to the reader to decide which of the characters was right all along. Was it Vautrin?
3.0 out of 5 stars
Classic but not gripping!,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Old Goriot (Paperback)
Balzac takes up the topics of love and money in this novel and successfully provides detailed insights into 19th century Parisian society. It is a very neat story, yet, I found that my interest level ebbed and flowed through the story and, therefore, the three stars rating.
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AWAESOME!,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Old Goriot (Paperback)
This was my first Balzac novel and it definitely got me hooked on the Comedie Humaine!
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