This is the reason why vautrin leaves us with mixed feelings. It was published in serial form from 1834 to 1835 and tells the story of three intertwined characters, goriot, vautrin, and rastignac. Chacun des principaux protagonistes a droit a son acte. Voir a ce sujet gerard gengembre, balzac le pere goriot, magnard, 1985, p. We have noted already the physical resemblance between vautrin and balzac. Savezvous pourquoi je fais ce petit discours dhistoire. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, rastignac, who comes to paris from the provinces to make his fortune, and befriends goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. He will find an heiress for rastignac to marry for a commission which will be paid later. Section 4 summary this section opens with a discussion between the two servants, christophe and sylvie, about vautrin s strange and secretive habit of receiving men late at night in his room and of bribing christophe to keep it concealed. Il avait les epaules larges, le buste bien developpe, les muscles apparents, des mains epaisses, carrees et fortement marquees aux phalanges par. Though philippe berthier, in his often cited article on male samesex desire in the three. En lisant le pere goriot, les illusions perdues et splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes, on arrive a retracer son itineraire.
Celleci prendre alors celuici comme confident, et plus tard amant. Vautrin, with his swordstick over his shoulder, tells the young man of a scheme he has developed. On verra tout dabord en quoi il sagit dun discours seducteur. Zeus pour le punir davaloir derobe le feu du ciel le fit clouer sur le caucase. Nous verrons tout dabord en quoi il sait dun discours seducteur.