Baba Guriyu: Persian 1401

Rastignac is a young provincial who seeks to integrate into Parisian society. He lacks manners and money. To succeed, he rubs shoulders with the women of the world but remains attached to his neighbor at the Vauquer pension, Father Goriot, an unhappy old man abandoned by his daughters. Vautrin, an escaped convict, Marsay, an ambitious politician, and Rubempré, a talented writer, are driven by the same desire for power. They learn, each in their own way, the collaboration and alliances essential in a society governed by interests. The only figures of disinterestedness: are Father Goriot, overcome by his paternal love, and Madame de Beauséant, abandoned by All of Paris. Passion boils in this house like in a pressure cooker, the pages turn by themselves; This is because each level of the Vauquer pension has become a level of what Balzac has just conceived: The Human Comedy.