Eugenie Grandet, Old Grandet

Author: (French) Balzac
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Balzac (1799—1850) was a literary giant of 19th-century France. Eugénie Grandet and Père Goriot are his representative works. Eugénie Grandet vividly depicts the provincial life of 19th-century France, portraying a variety of characters, particularly the cunning and miserly nouveau-riche figure of Grandet, exposing the monetary relationships between people in society at the time. Père Goriot, on the other hand, describes the bizarre and diverse social landscape of Paris through the stories that unfold in the (Fogey's boarding house) of a remote neighborhood in Paris. The author examines and judges life with exceptional artistic skill.