by Honoré de Balzac · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440620750
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«La piel de zapa» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Ediciones B in hardback (286 pages, in Spanish).
The young Raphaël de Valentin receives a magic shagreen that grants any wish, but each fulfilled wish shrinks the skin and reduces his vital energy. Between the realistic portrait of Parisian society and the supernatural element, Balzac reflects on desire, power, and the human condition.
Work belonging to Balzac's La comédie humaine (position 68). Originally published in 1831 under the title «La Peau de chagrin».
For readers of nineteenth-century French classics and stories with a fantastic backdrop.
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.
