This novel begins with the description of the sordid Parisian pension and its inhabitants. As the story unfolds we learn more about the history and character of the characters of a beautiful realistic thickness.
In this apartment include Eugène de Rastignac, a young law student penniless and while hope Vautrin a boor and mysterious man, dubbed a "Father Goriot" vermicelli old, who made his fortune and ending his life in this shabby pathetically pension, even where all other inhabitants of the pension just as exciting and fully taking their place in the story.
While Rastignac, dazzled by Paris and its high society, abandoned his studies to try to get into them, the fate of the other inhabitants emerge and reveal themselves in sadness and picturesque humor.
We learn that the Goriot father decided to sacrifice for his girls perform as well as possible, but that is rewarded with ingratitude of their units to death in great misery and buried by Rastignac and another student, burial paid by them.
For Eugène de Rastignac, these maneuvers to mount in society and make a fortune materializes by the desire to marry one of the girls Goriot, without success.
We also learn that Vautrin and actually a former convict escaped from prison and who will be caught up by his past. Each fate continues their way simple or will.
By the thickness of the characters and what they say about human nature and society of the 19th century, this novel is clearly a work capital.
The melancholy that emerges from this work, for the misfortune of Rastignac, Father Goriot, this seedy boarding school and his disappointed hopes moved me.
The simple pleasures and desires of the inhabitants of this boarding school as their destiny provide universality of these little people that Celine so identified, rooted and forged in the real, without metaphysics or ideologies abstractions.
Moreover, Balzac is one of the great novelist, the novel reads with pleasure and style is perfectly suited to this realist mural. Although the lack of benchmarks and chapters break a reading rate that facilitates pleasure.
I would highly recommend this exceptional book that will not leave you indifferent to its depth, the thickness of the universal character and genius of Balzac.
