Old Man Tall
About This Novel
This book is Balzac's masterpiece. It is based on the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. Through the shaping of "typical characters in typical environments", it depicts a panoramic view of Parisian society that uses money as a lever: "Balzac's character is not just a character, but a typical example of the era. The tragic factors are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the licentious and corrupt social environment. Madame Beauseant represents the declining nobility. The family ends up in seclusion, and Rastignac and Vautrin represent the two styles of the emerging class: one penetrates into society like a plague, and the other blasts into society like a cannonball. The interplay between the struggle of careerists for fame and fortune and the desperate fatherly love of Goriot make the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching." The translator Chen Jing is an associate professor of French at Beijing International Studies University, and her main research interests are French women's literature and comparative literature. The guide, Wu Yuetian, is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a doctoral supervisor, the president of the French Literature Research Association in China, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association.
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