Papà Goriot

Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feelings in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. Old Goriot is the first book I have read by Balzac and it took me completely by

By page 130 I ran out of patience with this thing so I channeled my inner irritable 14 year old and composed the following review: This Ballsack is a great writer I am told but one problem is that he wrote 4,578 novels, so which one should I read. I saw that Old Goriot has mostly 4 and 5 star reviews Leggi tutto

در سمفونی مردگان بود که برایم سوال شد! چرا آیدین باباگوریو میخواند؟ چرا پدرش کتاب باباگوریو را به آتش کشید؟ (بن جنسون می گفت: ادبیات باز آفرینی دقیق آن چیزی است که به راستی وجود دارند و آن کنش هایی که به راستی رخ داده اند.) و چه کسی بهتر از نویسندگانی مثل تولستوی،چخوف،بالزاک ، والتر که قلمشان رِالیسم ان Leggi tutto

Πρόκειται για ένα αριστούργημα της κλασικής λογοτεχνίας. Εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο της "Ανθρώπινης κωμωδίας" του συγγραφέα μια ομάδα εκπληκτικών μυθιστορημάτων- αν κρίνω απο αυτό-όπου με απόλυτο και σκληρό ρεαλισμό αλλα και ασύλληπτο συναισθηματικό πλούτο περιγράφει με τροπο άμεσο και μεγαλειώδη χαρακτ Leggi tutto

A classic French novel written in 1834 but set in Paris in 1819. Pere in the title means Father, and it’s in part a story of an old man’s obsessive love for his two married daughters. He was once a wealthy flour merchant but he gave all his money to his daughters while he lives in penury in a squali Leggi tutto

“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.” Pere Goriot (1835), Honore de Balzac's novel centered on French society after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo and subsequent restoration of the Bourbons is impressively detailed. Through an analysis of familie Leggi tutto

O poveste extraordinară, un Rege Lear burghez. Din păcate: Nu m-am împăcat niciodată cu grandilocvența lui Balzac. Și nici cu aceea a lui Victor Hugo. Știu, era stilul epocii (bombastic cît încape) și consecința claselor de retorică din învățămîntul francez. Pe patul de moarte, sărmanul Goriot, fostu Leggi tutto