- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications (Sep 10 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486436985
- ISBN-13: 978-0486436982
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #483,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A kind-hearted and idealistic youth enters the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s, where his education in the realities and costs of city life begin among the residents of a shabby but respectable boardinghouse. Acclaimed by Leslie Stephen as "the modern King Lear," it offers a timeless view of the tragedies behind the prosaic details of everyday life.
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My first introduction to Balzac, May 28 2010
By Jeffrey Van Wagoner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pere Goriot (Paperback)
I have been going through the classics lately and decided to give Balzac a try. Pere Goriot is considered one of his most important works. Overall, it was a good novel, but it didn't impact me like many of the other classics that I have read.It did paint a vivid picture of the early 19th century French aristocracy that was far from flattering. The title character has a distorted view of love but the law student does have some redeeming qualities. Balzac does a good job describing things, but I found his characters hard to like.
Since this is the only version of Pere Goriot that I have read, it is hard to make a judgment call on the translation, but if I read it again I will try a different translation. Some of the phrases could have been translated better and sounded almost too literal.
The book was worth reading, if only to get a feel for that time period in France. I came away from it very grateful that I wasn't born an aristocrat in 19th century France.
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