It is with great pleasure and without any fatigue that we follow the journey of a young man of the nineteenth century that seeks to escape poverty and make a fortune. Only, unlike a society of "predators", the hero is simple enough and will have to mature in a rather painful to move in this society profiteers and dishonest. Balzac describes a Paris where it is not good to be nice or passionate, paris where a father is bleeding white for her two daughters, one of which takes advantage too. A paris where all good people rush to the party organized by a woman in distress just to see the downfall of what was good in relation to the hero. In short, a portrait not very beautiful but full of emotions, colors, naivety when perceives through the eyes of the hero. The story absorbs us, transport us descriptions, characters affect us or we revolt. A work written with talent which we can delight again with great pleasure.
