Controle Lecture Le Père Goriot

simplicity, the faithful devotion of his different types are recorded with unsparing frankness, and without the slightest attempt to point a moral. Such portraits as those of the adopted son in Aux Champs, of the supplanted child in Le Pere Amable, of Hautdt Pere et Fits, stick closely to the memory. The story of the Fille de Ferme is not unworthy of Turgenev. Such studies of manners as Farce Normande, Le BapUme, and the very characteristic La Martine speak for themselves with their spacious

famous for having been the first to discuss in detail the possibility of humanity outgrowing its food supply, which explains how Jagmohan was influenced by reading him to avoid remarriage after his wife died: this is his contribution to population control. The irony is that this childless man acts very much like a father to Sachish, much more so than the boy’s own father, Harimohan. (Whereas “Hari” is a name for the god Vishnu, “Jag” is short for “jagat”—which means “world”—obviously a suitable name