It made me miserable and anxious. Therefore, to experience Balzac, one couldn't find a more inspired entree in Pere Goriot. Or were they actually comfortable with him all along? In such conditions in reality, as in the fictional melodrama, mistakes matter more, and ruin can be real, for a lot more people. This makes for great literature, but for a youthful reader who needs to learn some lessons about being careful with money, maybe not so useful. Despite the artifice of glamor, wealth and nobility, a young attorney named Rastignac learns that it is shallow, materialistic and vain beyond all sense.
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Ojciec Goriot (Audiobook on CD, ) []
Men and women for you must be nothing more than gorior take a fresh relay, and leave the last to drop by the roadside; in this way you will reach the goal of your ambition. The daughters return to Goriot when they have no choice, cornered by circumstances and needing his money. I spent so much time thinking in frustration that they all could and should, father and daughters, have enough to live comfortably, without many fancy things - there was evidently enough there… if only they had done things that way.
What it does best is describe life in Paris around i. He was articulate, he was engaging, but I was a little concerned that he was interrupting the story he has to tell to reinforce points.
Surprisingly, the writing is easy to understand and definitely not archaic.
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
As Vautrin explains to Rastignac, it is illusory to think that social success can be achieved through study, talent, and effort — you can never get anywhere worthwhile by slaving your life away earning an honest living out of your ojcieec and skills. Often this was a weakness, loading the book down with declamations and hysterics. The first being The Divine Comedy's The Bookloverswhose roll-call of authors I'm audiovook trying belatedly to finish with one book each.
From the very start, this novel is heavy-laden with realistic details snatched from history and from daily life. Maybe Rickles is on tonight.
It made me miserable and anxious. Don't have an account? All I can say is that tastes change with time But I am not feeling particularly spiritual. This is a sad story set in early 19th ojviec Paris. Others may be bored.
One of the boarders leads to the discovery of that criminal.
Or was it that all pretensions to live a up-and-comer middle-class life is buying into the capitalist illusion?
Thanks for telling us about the problem.
Ojciec Goriot
This sort of thing requires an attention I might not always have paid, in part because I wasn't so engaged in the young social climber's upwardly mobile quest?
I like descriptive writing. I guess it all depends whether you read to feel good or read to have audiovook heart ripped out. It was also an inspiration to Mario Puzo when he wrote The Godfather. When he finished school, Balzac was apprenticed as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine.
He was delighted with the smallest goiot he thought nothing of himself, all of his care and concern was for them. It is about people and how we behave, then and today. Oh dear, my first Balzac and definitely will not be my last.
Jan 13, Chrissie rated it really liked it Shelves: Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. This is a tragedy, perhaps not as Shakespearean as one would like or ironic--it naturally follows its predestined course the entire timebut it IS full of woe-is-meisms and melancholy in the treatment of one human from one class to another.
Sometimes I was reminded of that bit in Reality Hunger: Was it hard to really value or conserve his money because they needed rather less of him in their space, and him and his money were psychically near-equivalent? And the great Dickensian confluence in the middle of the book is incredibly exciting. I also enjoyed the depiction of the young Rastignac's naivete as he traverses through the rooms of the wealthy.
