Honoré de Balzac: Le Père Goriot

Par Honoré de Balzac

" Le Père Goriot " d'Honoré de Balzac s'ouvre en 1819, avec la description sordide et répugnante de la maison Vauquer, une pension parisienne située dans la rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, appartenant à la veuve Vauquer. Plusieurs résidents s'y côtoient, dont Eugène de Rastignac, jeune étudiant en droit, un mystérieux personnage un peu rustre et grossier nommé Vautrin et un ancien fabricant de pâtes et de pain.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: epubli
• Date de sortie: 10 juil. 2019
• ISBN: 9783748571995

Honoré de Balzac

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.