Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Magic Skin
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Wild Ass's Skin
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Magic Skin. The Hidden Masterpiece
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The hidden masterpiece: the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both.
The Magic Skin
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775453561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Famous perfectionist Honore de Balzac labored for years to bring the fascinating idea behind The Magic Skin to life in a novel, and critics and fans alike agree that it is one of the French writer's masterworks. The story follows the experiences of a young man who finds a small piece of animal skin that magically fulfills his every desire. However, over time, he discovers that the seeming miracle has exacted a terrible toll on his body -- and his soul.
The Magic Skin, Or, The Wild Ass's Skin
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"The Magic Skin" also known as "The Wild Ass's Skin" is Honor� de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Rapha�l de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfilment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy of the wisher. "The Wild Ass's Skin" is at once both a work of incredible realism, in the descriptions of Parisian life and culture at the time, and also a work of supernatural fantasy, in the desires that are fulfilled by the wild ass's skin. Balzac uses this fantastical device masterfully to depict the complexity of the human nature in civilised society. (Goodreads)
The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (Dodo Press)
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406506600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Balzac entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (1831), a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life.
The Magic Skin or, The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Wild Ass's Skin is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfillment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy of the wisher. "The Wild Ass's Skin" is at once both a work of incredible realism, in the descriptions of Parisian life and culture at the time, and also a work of supernatural fantasy, in the desires that are fulfilled by the wild ass's skin. Balzac uses this fantastical device masterfully to depict the complexity of the human nature in civilized society.
The Magic Skin
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN: 9781692752453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Magic Skin is a novel by Honor� de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
The Works of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Fatal Skin
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Signet Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Bent on killing himself by throwing himself into the Seine after losing his shirt at the gaming tables, Raphael de Valentin, the romanticised, doomed young hero of Balzac's early novel, 'La Peau de chagrin' (1831), turns into an antiques shop to while away the hours till darkness (when he can be sure not to be rescued). There he finds himself in an emporium of civilisation's treasures, from all over the world and in every marvellous material, executed to the highest degree of human art. Eventually, the eerie, wizened keeper appears and shows Valentin the magic skin which gives the novel its title. It's the hide of a wild ass and, like the ring of the Nibelungen, has the power to grant its owner every wish. But in return it will take possession of Valentin, body and soul. Every time it performs, it will shrink and Valentin's life will shorten in accord.