Life and creativity of Honore de Balzac / part 7/
Stefan Zweig argues that "the project to write" Le Père Goriot"originated in Balzac in September 1834." Then he wrote a few words in his notebook, where he recorded his projects: "A decent man, a family board, six hundred francs annuity; he renounces all his property for the benefit of his daughters - both of them with fifty thousand francs - and dies as a dog. "Later she shared with Mrs. Hanska that he had chosen as a hero" a man who is a father like that as the saint or martyr is a Christian. The novel "Le Père Goriot" is published in four consecutive numbers of the Revue de Paris from December 1834 to February 1835. It appears in a separate volume with a preface published by the publisher Verde in 1835. It was reissued by the publisher Charpentier in 1839 without preface and partitioning.
The novel, revised and corrected, entered the Human Comedy in 1843. "Le Père Goriot" is greeted warmly, begins to study in schools and soon becomes famous as a typical creation of Balzac. In it the author applies for the first time the principle of "return to the character". It should be noted that the novel contains everything that in our collective memory is the core of the Balzac myth: detailed descriptions, memorable artistic types, young ambitious characters, beautiful secular ladies, colorful criminals, and generous money distributed to the family drama. All the intrigues are gathered in a loose family boarding house. There is the dedication of the young Rastiniak to the sentimental and social life. There is a police intrigue and the tragic destiny of old Goriot unfolds. The action in the novel began in November 1819. At the boarding house "Voke", located in the Latin Quarter, described in detail by the author, the young law student Eugen de Rastiniak was interested in the fate of the miserable f Le Père Goriot, who helped with the help of Countess de Resto and the deeds of the enigmatic Mr. Votren. As a guest of ladies de Reesto and de Bosean Rastiniack, she understands who is actually Le Père Goriot, a former pastry maker who is ruinous for his daughters, Anastasia (Madame de Resto) and Dolphina (the wife of the banker, Baron de Noussenez) to him with contempt.
The Provincial youth does not accept Votren's cynical council who urges him to persuade Victorine Taifer, a young boarder who may soon be inherited by his father's tremendous condition if the development of events accelerates through a crime. Encouraged by Gorio Eugene takes over the conquest of his daughter, Dolphin. Attracted by the considerable cash prize, the two tenants at the boarding house, Miss Mussano and Poire, helped police Gondouro arrest Votrene, escaped from a prisoner of war, known for his nickname "Deceit Death," who still managed to assassinate the queen's queen. Meanwhile, Eugene becomes a lover of the Dolphin. Fallen into cash difficulties, denying the egoism of his daughters, Le Père Goriot gets sick. Eugene helps his friend, the young student of medicine, Bianchon, in the treatment of the unfortunate old man. Eugene attends the farewell reception given by Mrs de Boisean, abandoned by her lover Ajuda-Pinto.
The importance of Balzac in literature is very great: he expanded the scope of the novel and, being one of the main founders of the realistic and naturalistic trends, showed him new ways, which in many ways he went until the beginning of the XX century. His main view is purely naturalistic: he looks at every phenomenon as a result of the interaction of known conditions, known environment. According to this, Balzac's novels are not only an image of individual characters, but also a picture of the whole of modern society with the main forces that control it: the General pursuit of the benefits of life, the thirst for profit, honors, position in the light, with all the various struggles of large and small passions. At the same time, he reveals to the reader the whole behind-the-scenes side of this movement in the smallest details, in his everyday life, which gives his books the character of a burning reality. In the delineation of character he brings to the fore some of the main one, the dominant trait. For Balzac, every person is nothing more than"some passion, which serves the mind and organs and which is opposed by circumstances." Thanks to this, his characters get extraordinary, relief and brightness, and many of them have become common names, like the characters Moliere: so, Grande became synonymous with avarice, Gorio – fatherly love, etc.a Large place in his novels are women. With all his ruthless realism, he always puts a woman on a pedestal, she is always above the surrounding, and is a victim of the selfishness of a man. His favorite type-a woman 30-40 years.
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