Père Goriot (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Honoré Balzac
- First Published: 1834
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: c. 1819
- Setting: Paris, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, France or French people, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Paris, Fathers, Death or dying, Landlords or tenants
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Father Goriot (goh-RYOH), a lonely old lodger at the pension of Madame Vauquer in Paris. Known to the other boarders as Old Goriot, he is a retired manufacturer of vermicelli who sold his prosperous business in order to provide handsome dowries for his two daughters. During his first year at the Maison Vauquer, he occupied the best rooms in the house; in the second year, he asked for less expensive quarters on the floor above; and at the end of the third year he moved into a cheap, dingy room on the third story. Because two fashionably dressed young women...
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Honoré de Balzac (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Honoré de Balzac (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Honoré de Balzac (Dictionary of World Biography)Honoré de Balzac (Censorship)Honoré de Balzac (Short Fiction)Honoré de Balzac (Long Fiction)
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