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Gobseck

Honoré de Balzac

Book Overview: 

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accustomed them to. This is a continuation of tale of one of those daughters, Mme Restaud.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .English horse, and all the rest of it. The bill bore the signature of one of the prettiest women in Paris, married to a Count, a great landowner. Now, how came that Countess to put her name to a bill of exchange, legally not worth the paper it was written upon, but practically very good business; for these women, poor things, are afraid of the scandal that a protested bill makes in a family, and would give themselves away in payment sooner than fail? I wanted to find out what that bill of exchange really represented. Was it stupidity, imprudence, love or charity?

"'The second bill, bearing the signature "Fanny Malvaut," came to me from a linen-draper on the highway to bankruptcy. Now, no creature who has any credit with a bank comes to me. The first step to my door means that a man is desperately hard up; that the news of his failure will soon come out: and, most of all, it means that he has been everywhere else first. The stag is always at bay when I see him, . . . Read More

Community Reviews

An interesting little story, which indirectly continues the tale started in Father Goriot. While the main theme in the story is avarice, there is a thin thread of continuity that touches upon the fate of Mme. de Restaud and her children, shedding new light on what happened after her father's, M. Gor

گوبسک :« شما جوان هستید و افکار مناسب سن و سالتان را دارید، در هیمه نیم‌سوخته بخاریتان، جز چهره زنان را نمی‌بینید، اما من در آنها فقط زغال می‌بینم».

احتمالا بزرگترین ضربه‌هایی که میخوریم و رنج‌هایی که می‌کشیم به این ارجاع دارد که ما عمدتا در تناقضات اخلاقی روانی، منطقمان را با اخلاق تطبیق می‌دهیم.
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داستان درباره یه پیرمرد رباخواره که دارایی یه کنت جوان بنا به دلایلی دست اونه و از زبون یکی از مشتریاش که دوستشم شده و وکیلشم هست گفته میشه
صحبت های خود گوبسک با وکیل خیلی واسم جالب بود،
من دوستش داشتم و بعد از خوندنش ترغیب شدم که بقیه کتاب های بالزاک هم بخونم ،اینکه متوجه شدم توی کتاب های مختلفش از

Me gusta que Balzac mencione a personajes de otras historias. Es como saber que pasa antes o después en la vida de los mismos.

"Gobsekas" – apysaka – vienas geriausių Balzako kūrinių. Ne kartą taisytas, kol dabar skaitome šią paskutinę autoriaus redakciją. Ryškūs charakteriai (ne veltui autorius savo mokytoju laikė Moljerą), o pagrindinis (neigiamas!) veikėjas palūkanininkas, tapęs baronu, niekinantis žmones, bedvasis skept

Στα 1816 ο δεκαεπτάχρονος Balzac μπήκε ως μαθητευόμενος στο δικηγορικό γραφείο του κυρίου Guyonnet de Merville, που υπήρξε ένας τίμιος και ακέραιος άνθρωπος και που, χωρίς να το επιδιώξει, αποτέλεσε πηγή εμπνευσης τόσο για τον θεατρικό συγγραφέα Eugène Scribe, (τον εβαλε να πρωταγωνιστεί στο έργο το

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