Honoré de Balzac - Goriot apó

Balzac's novel "Father Goriot" tells the story of an elderly father who is exploited and abandoned by his daughters, yet loves them to the very end. Balzac himself called the hero "the Christ of fatherhood," an image that still shapes how the book is read today. This 2018 paperback edition from Európa Könyvkiadó is a 19th-century novel in softcover, measuring 125 x 195 x 18 mm and weighing 300 g.

The young Rastignac, who abandons Goriot to his fate and attends his funeral alone, appears in other Balzac novels as an ambitious careerist. Here the traits that explain the complex character of one of Balzac's most important heroes come to the fore.

The ending is among the most far-reaching in world literature: as Goriot is buried, an entire world is laid to rest with him. Rastignac's famous words, "Now it's our turn!", signal both the struggles of his own path and the prophecy of new worlds being born.