About This Novel
This book is the most important work in Balzac's "Human Comedy: Scenes from Provincial Life". Balzac called this novel "one of the most outstanding drawings" in "Human Comedy". The novel describes the family conflicts between the Grandet couple, father and daughter, uncle and nephew, profoundly reveals the money relationship in bourgeois families, extensively unfolds the customs of the French provinces in the first half of the 19th century, and creates a typical artistic image of "Grandet", one of the four misers in the gallery of world literary figures. He was greedy, cunning, and stingy. Money was his belief. Watching gold alone was his hobby. Before he died, he did not forget to tell his daughter to go there and give an account. His family was extremely wealthy, but he had to personally distribute the bread for every meal and the candles he lit every day. His stinginess swelled and engulfed him whole. Grandet was portrayed extremely vividly, making him one of the most famous typical images in the history of world literature.
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