Name: Gobseck (in Spanish)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9788495776150

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Montesinos

Year

2002

Language

Spanish

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8495776154

ISBN13

9788495776150

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Gobseck (in Spanish)"

"Gobseck" es, a pesar de su brevedad, una de las más poderosas y dinámicas obras de Balzac. Una pequeña joya que se lee de un tirón. Su personaje principal, el tal Gobseck, es un prestamista, un usurero, un hombre de pasado misterioso y aventurero que ha desarrollado un amor desorbitado por el oro y las riquezas. Sin embargo, y a su modo, Gobseck es también un filósofo, una mezcla de cínico y escéptico que observa desde la sombra a la sociedad que le rodea como la araña que ha tejido su tela y aguarda relamiéndose sus presas. Pero esa pasión desbordada está regida por reglas, a las que el avaro se atiene escrupulosamente, lo que hace de él, también, en cierto modo, un hombre de honor, aunque sea un honor que a menudo forcejea con la codicia. Verdadero mago en el manejo de las almas ajenas, Gobseck se mantiene imperturbablemente fiel a los principios morales que se ha fijado, hace de la usura un arte y extrae de ella placeres que se dirigen más al espíritu que al cuerpo, condicionando con sus decisiones la vida de otras personas incluso después de su propia muerte.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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