SUMMARY - Gobseck By Honore De Balzac
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Narrated by Digital Voice Mike G
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
As you read this summary, you will discover how the relationships of power and money in the society of 1830 presented in Gobseck reflect today's world.
You will also discover :
- how the new Gobseck illustrates money as the driving force behind people's actions and ambitions;
- that the character of Gobseck, stingy with genius, is neither all black nor all white;
- how Gobseck, by dominating his passion for money, dominates others;
- how literature highlights the consequences of avarice.
Balzac, canonical author of French literature, may seem outdated, and the scale of his work may frighten. Indeed, the worlds he describes may seem foreign to you. They are not! On the contrary, this author has sought throughout his life to describe a society in constant mutation after the earthquake of the French Revolution. This society is still relevant today and, around it, the notion of money has become central. This notion takes on its full meaning in Gobseck, a short story published in 1830, during the first years of writing the works that would provide the whole of the vast Comédie humaine. How, in this short story, does Balzac make money the major force that animates men?
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