by Honoré de Balzac · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070365555
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«La Peau de chagrin» is Honoré de Balzac's philosophical novel, published in the Folio collection in paperback (433 pages, in French).
A young man finds a magical skin that grants all his wishes, but each fulfilled wish shrinks the skin and shortens his life. The philosophical novel reflects on desire, ambition, and the value of happiness, as well as the price paid for satisfying one's longings in the face of life's transience.
Complete text in French, with a preface by André Pieyre de Mandiargues; 1974 paperback edition.
For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and for those who want to read Balzac in his original language.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
