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Quotation from Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac
“once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!”
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Opening pages, trans. Ellen Marriage (1896)
The narrator addresses the comfortable reader in an armchair and insists that the elements of the tragedy are in every house.
Citation: "once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!" — Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Opening pages, trans. Ellen Marriage (1896). (id balzac-father-goriot-q1)
Portrait: Honoré de Balzac (1842) detail, Louis-Auguste Bisson, Public domain.
