Goriot Baba

Serif Hulûsi's translation, with Peter Brooks' foreword, afterwords by Marcel Proust and Harry Levin. With author and period chronology.

Goriot Baba Restoration Era France' It portrays in a realistic style the tragedy created by the bourgeois life that left its mark on society. Goriot, considered one of the best examples of the realistic novel, is one of Balzac's most important works that provides the integrity of the characters in the "Human Comedy" series. The novel, which first met with the reader in 1835, intersects the paths of three characters, who seem quite different from each other at first glance, but who have actually guided their lives with the dream of becoming a bourgeois, in Madame Vauquer's boarding house: Jean-Joachim, who spent all his wealth for his daughters to have successful marriages and was eventually excluded by his sons-in-law. Goriot, Rastignac, who imitated the life he encountered in Paris, where he came to study law, and Vautrin, who was carried away by his ambition and manipulated moral people for his own interests...

"Vautrin, Rastignac, Birotteau... And you, Honoré de Balzac, all the things you created from your heart. You are more heroic, simpler, more romantic and more poetic than the characters..."
-CHARLES BAUDELAIRE-

"The 19th century as we know it is, to a large extent, an invention of Balzac."
>-OSCAR WILDE-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 376

Printing Year: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Yayincilik

Number of Pages: 376