Goriot Baba-Hasan Ali Yücel Classics

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): The great name of 19th century French literature. He started his literary career by writing plays, and as a result of the criticism he received, he turned to novels. He completed 85 novels in twenty years, leaving behind 50 drafts of novels when he died. In 1830, he collected his fictional works under the title The Human Comedy, referring to Dante's Divine Comedy. He created more than 2000 characters, some of which became archetypes of literature over time, and he handled all these characters with an analytical approach free of prejudice, without isolating them from their social class. Father Goriot, which was first serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1834, is included under the title Scenes from Paris Life in the Study of Manners part of The Human Comedy. Centering on the misery, suffering and loneliness of the impoverished former merchant Goriot, the novel reveals the influence of money on the human condition through an extremely tragic plot through the institution of paternity, human weaknesses and ostentatious stupidity. This bourgeois hell, which includes its antitheses, that is, Vautrin, who embodies the narrator's sometimes angry and sarcastic attitude, and Rastignac, an ambitious but naive law student who has his sights set on Paris society, has never been depicted in such a striking style until Godfather Goriot.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 12.5 x 20.5

First Printing Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Original Language: French