Synopsis
Austere moneylender Gobseck sits at the center of Parisian debt, quietly holding nobles and shopkeepers in his grasp. Through a lawyer's reminiscence, Balzac shows how his icy calculations ruin a countess and reshape several lives, turning the power of money into a chilling character study.
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