
Le Pere Goriot
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Narrated by:
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Paul Hecht
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By:
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Honoré de Balzac
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was, at first, afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household. Some think he lost in the markets, others see him as a lecherous patron of prostitutes, but one thing is clear: his selfless, complete devotion to his two daughters.
As the tragedy of old Goriot is revealed, the shallow values of society come into scrutiny.
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Critic reviews
"Le Père Goriot holds so much, and in proportion to what it holds is...so simple and compact, that it easily ranks among the few greatest novels we possess." (Henry James)
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balzac rocks
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French emotion
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The dirty and greedy human nature
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The thing about classics is reflection more than the story. I am very surprised that belzac did not spend time to convey to us, his distant children, that Gene loved Goriot deeply. I learned that only in the last chapter. Also how much did Gene loved his mistress? I can't tell after finishing the story.
Good, provided that:
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For a classic, disappointing: bleak and humourless
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
take it out of the classic books of the19th centuryHow would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
make it not so ridiculously soap operishWhat three words best describe Paul Hecht’s voice?
doesn't do character that wellDid Le Pere Goriot inspire you to do anything?
go back to english novelsNot as good as i remember it
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Superb Reading
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Loved it
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Would you listen to Le Pere Goriot again? Why?
Balzac's powers of description are amazing -- and the characters are memorable.Who was your favorite character and why?
Without doubt the young student Eugène de Rastignac, an attractive but misguidedly ambitious young man -- whose last name has actually entered the French language as a synonym for an opportunistic social climber -- an "arriviste." Rastignac wrestles with his own moral conscience as he manipulates people to achieve his social ends.Any additional comments?
Superbly read.If you read only one Balzac novel, this is it.
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Great book and one of the best narrative performances I’ve heard
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