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Gobseck – Balzac Honore de – ABC – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-389-04734-1

Gobseck
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Honoré de Balzac is undoubtedly one of the finest French novelists of the 19th century. The most important feature of his work is that he not only left behind a vast literary legacy but also captured the history of an entire society. In his "Human Comedy," which includes nearly one hundred works, the talented master created a vast gallery of characters—no fewer than two thousand representatives of various social classes. Among them is the clever, powerful moneylender Gobseck, who holds the fates of many brilliant Parisian aristocrats in his hands. He is a character in several of Balzac's novels and in the story "Gobseck" (1830), which is presented in this book.
The hero of the philosophical novel "The Shagreen Skin" (1831), published here, also becomes a gold digger. Through his story, the author expresses an important idea: a person who betrays their own ideals loses the right to happiness and inevitably leads to ruin.
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