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Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions) (Original 1835; 1997. Auflage)

von Honoré de Balzac (Autor), Peter Brooks (Herausgeber), Burton Raffel (Übersetzer)

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A novel of nineteenth-century French society is accompanied by nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism.
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Titel:Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
Autoren:Honoré de Balzac (Autor)
Weitere Autoren:Peter Brooks (Herausgeber), Burton Raffel (Übersetzer)
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (1997), Edition: 1st, 384 pages
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Père Goriot (Norton Critical Editions) von Honoré de Balzac (1835)

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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.

Rastignac becomes involved with the daughters in his attempt to scramble his way into a Paris society that values only money and is more concerned with outward image than it could ever be with inward character. This false allure of great wealth begins to eat at Rastignac’s morality and his integrity, and it is primarily the example of unrewarded sacrifice in Pere Goriot that makes him harken at all to the teachings of his own father and mother, teachings he tends to forget and sublimate to ambition and corruption.

There is so little of sincerity or genuine emotion outside of Goriot himself, that I wonder at the depths to which the citizens of Paris had plunged following the reign of Napoleon. I kept reminding myself that these wealthy people were the remnants of an aristocracy that had been decimated and must have wondered what its function was beyond live for today, for tomorrow you may die, or members of a rising merchant class that knew little of how to handle great wealth. There is manipulation on a major scale, relationships based on nothing beyond money, delusion in almost everyone, including Goriot and Rastignac, and betrayal of everything sacred or imaginable.

The overriding themes in this novel are surely pertinent to today. Money and its trappings will lure you in and leave you lonely; overindulgence of children will destroy character; the easy road to wealth is probably a corrupt one--what you did not work for will not serve you well; you cannot buy love; temptation comes sometimes with a smooth voice and a quick smile, beware; and there are things in life worth holding on to, which can be lost far too easily, and those include genuine friendship and the love and devotion of your family.

Perhaps Balzac attempted to cover too many themes in this work, which is what made it seem spotty and incomplete for me. There were moments of interest and moments when I found myself nodding off, my mind wandering so badly that I needed to begin sections again.

There is a Faustian element, with the naive Rastignac pitted against the temptations of the slick Vautin, that I felt was most abruptly severed. In similar fashion, Victorine’s story seemed incomplete as well...a story that Balzac meant to write and then discarded. In fact, what I mostly felt at the end of the novel was a temptation to exclaim “Is that all there is?

I had read this novel somewhere in my ancient past, but any plot element I had attributed to it was wrong. I realized that I had transferred pieces of Silas Marner to it, and that is a different father’s tale altogether. It is not a bad novel or one I would rail against reading; it is however one I will be sure not to revisit, and being done with Pere Goriot, I will be done with Balzac as well. His writing style is not particularly suited to my tastes, and the world of print is awash with other authors I truly want to explore more fully. ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
This was my first Balzac experience. It won't be my last.

Read for Bildungsroman class. ( )
  Raechill | May 4, 2021 |
This timeless story is set in the early 19th century about a father who's compelled by his love for his daughters to suffer great sacrifices in order to help improve their social and economic standing. ( )
  dcvance | May 4, 2021 |
Dramatic story of the obsessive over a father has for his two ungrateful daughters in the time of Paris when everyone has mistresses or lovers. ( )
  LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |
I really like reading about this period in French history - before, during, and after the Revolution. So much interesting thought has come out of it, and it was such a radical upheaval. I was hoping this book would be more of an indictment of class society (i.e. the return of the aristocracy and the evils they bring), but it's more interested in exposing how the world totally revolves around money, at the expense (no pun intended) of everything else. Nothing is sacred. So instead presenting a class/society problem, Balzac presents a moral problem, which is a much more conservative worldview.

Still, a really good book. The first Balzac I've ever read. His descriptions are really fantastic, and he has a lot of deep, often dark, insight (and sometimes humour, too) into human behaviour. ( )
  xiaomarlo | Apr 17, 2019 |
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