by Honoré de Balzac · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420666655
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«La piel de zapa» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
A young man who has lost his last coin in a Paris gambling house enters, on the brink of suicide, an antique shop. There he receives a skin talisman that grants his wishes, but each fulfilled wish shrinks the skin and shortens his life. Balzac turns this pact into a reflection on desire, ambition, and the transience of existence.
Translation by Julio C. Acerete. In Balzac's «La Comédie Humaine» series it occupies position 68.
Aimed at readers of classic fiction and students of nineteenth-century French literature.
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.
