by Honoré de Balzac · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253138082
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«Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu» is the short novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (93 pages, in French).
In seventeenth-century Paris, three painters —Poussin, Porbus and the mysterious Frenhofer— debate about art while the latter hides his masterpiece. To see it, Poussin offers Gillette, his companion, as a model; the sight of the painting leaves them dumbfounded. A fantastic tale in the manner of Hoffmann and a reflection on the power of the spirit in art.
This edition includes Hoffmann's La Leçon de violon, with an introduction and notes by Maurice Bruëzière. It is part of La Comédie humaine, within the Études philosophiques, as number 71.
For readers of nineteenth-century French classics and for those seeking a reflection on artistic creation.
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.
