by Honoré de Balzac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402083081
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«La piel de zapa» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Bruguera in paperback (287 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist receives a piece of shagreen that grants all his wishes, but each fulfilled wish shrinks the talisman and shortens his life. The novel, originally published in 1831, combines realistic observation with fantastic elements and metaphysical reflections on desire and the human condition.
Volume 68 of La Comédie Humaine. Edited by Carlos Pujol, with a translation by Rafael Cansinos Assens, in the Libro Amigo collection (no. 752).
For readers of nineteenth-century French fiction and classics with fantastic elements and philosophical reflection.
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.
