Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
Also translated as Old Goriot
This masterpiece is another example of Balzac’s skill at depicting the complexity of human behaviour. He uses a boarding house as a setting to show the deleterious impact of social mobility in post-revolutionary Paris…the irony is, of course, that all this inequity takes place after the Revolution which was meant to end it. Continue reading
La Comedie Humaine by Balzac 