by Honoré de Balzac · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070338283
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«La Peau de chagrin» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Raphaël de Valentin has lost everything; a piece of shagreen that grants wishes changes his life. Each wish shrinks the skin and shortens its owner's life. The novel follows the protagonist's dilemma between giving in to desire or restraining himself, in a reflection on ambition, power and mortality.
It belongs to «La comedia humana». Edition by Samuel S. de Sacy with a preface by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, in the Folio classique collection with the indication «Programme du Bac».
For students of French preparing for the Bac program and for readers of nineteenth-century classic fiction.
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.
