La Comedie Humaine, but this book is everything but a comedy. I admit it took me a long time to read tho whole piece because I did not simply read it - I suffered through it. Even though many people think it’s rather boring and difficult to read, I don’t think there is a single useless word in the whole novel. Because by reading it you are being sent to an entirely different society, to a whole different world which could not be understood by a citizen of the modern world if it weren’t for all the thorough descriptions and “boring” conversations. I think I enjoyed it so much because I had decided not to struggle with it no matter what and when it was slow and hard to read to just put it aside and give myself time to just think it through. I reckon it was a rather good strategy. The other important thing that made it so enjoyable was the fact that I had The Cound of Monte Cristo behind my back, and I had already experienced that so specific in its manners and understandings society.
The last ten or twenty pages were a real torture. I literally felt like the old man - he had to die to be rid of his pain and sorrow, bu he could not, and so I wanted the book to end, so I wouldn’t have to read about that poor man’s pain and sorrow, but I could not put it down. I felt his pain and disappointment, and I lived through Eugene’s anger. These two characters were so real and vivid that I could easily indentify with both of them even though I had never in my life experienced anything like this.
This book was both terrible and amazing. It left me breathless with tears in my eyes. My heart aches as I think of the last words of Old Goriot when I could see that he wasn’t actually crazy; he wasn’t dellusional either - he just loved his daughters and didn’t mind deceiting himself just to be happy for a while with the thought that his daughters actually loved him back.
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