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Twelve men in generational succession represent the main characters of this magnificent family saga that spans the last three hundred years of Hungarian history.
Uncle Goriot is the story of the old war profiteer Goriot and his daughters, who, after robbing him to the skin, leave him to die in the solitude and misery of the Vaquer boarding house, a story that can be read today on several levels.
The novel is based on the writer's experiences in Shanghai during World War II and in the Civilian Collection Center in Lunghua, where he was interned from 1942 to 1945. Steven Spielberg made a film of the same name based on the script by Tom Stoppard.
It is about Petersburg at the beginning of the 20s of the last century, a time when culture and everyday life still showed some kind of "normal" state.