by Honoré de Balzac · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070308750
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«Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu» is a volume of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (381 pages, in French).
The volume brings together seven stories with painting as the common thread. The title story presents the old master Frenhofer, who takes ten years to finish a painting whose revelation baffles his colleagues. Also featured are the mediocre painter Pierre Grassou, the blind clarinetist Facino Cane, and narratives echoing Delacroix.
The book belongs to the Folio classique collection (no. 4202). The edition, introduced and annotated by Adrien Goetz, includes bibliographical references.
For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and for those seeking stories about art and painting.
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.
