Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A young law student moves to Paris from southern France only to become enamored with life in the city, its abundance of wealth and lack of clear-cut morals. Rastignac lives in a boarding house owned by Madame Vauquer, a widow whose other tenants include the formerly wealthy Jean-Joachim Goriot and the hardened criminal known as Vautrin. Father Goriot is a story of desire and ambition set during the Bourbon Restoration, a time of widespread socioeconomic upheaval in nineteenth-century France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273310
• Artikelnr.: 60739951

Autorenporträt

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac's realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine-he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process-led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac's most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.