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"Père Goriot" is an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac that follows an aging father who sacrifices everything for his two daughters, only to be abandoned by them as he descends into poverty and despair. The novel is considered a masterpiece of realist literature that reveals the moral corruption and social ambition lurking beneath the surface of Parisian society.
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- France
- Series
- The Human Comedy
- Followed by
- Colonel Chabert
- Follows
- La Femme de trente ans
- Movement
- literary realism
- Narrative location
- France
- Image
- Le Père Goriot, 1er Volume, 1835.png
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- publication date
- 1835-03-00
- title
- Vater Goriot
- Commons category
- Le Père Goriot
- inception
- 1835-00-00
- language of work or name
- French
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- novel
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/balzac/goriot/goriot.html
- time period
- Romanticism
- takes place in fictional universe
- The Human Comedy
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Encyclopedic overview
Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist; published by George Barrie & Son in Philadelphia
Le Père Goriot ( French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.
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