Reading Old Goriot | Alexandria
Read Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac. Exposing society's ruthless underbelly, Balzac's Old Goriot reveals how blind parental love breeds monsters - a stark warning about toxic family dynamics that still resonates. His radical insight? True evil lies not in malice, but in children's casual indifference to sacrificial love. A chilling mirror to our age of performative affection.