La peau de chagrin

Written by Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by Jacques Roland

La Peau de chagrin, un de ses premiers romans à coloration fantastique de Balzac, on dévoile le mythe sans doute le plus central dans La Comédie humaine, celui du désir destructeur.Balzac apparaît comme un merveilleux narrateur. Il sait émouvoir le lecteur et le passionner par cette histoire extraordinaire et ses multiples péripéties.Combinant le réel et l’imaginaire, il ménage jusqu’à la fin l’intérêt et la curiosité du lecteur, dans ce premier volet des Études Philosophiques.

• Language: Français
• Publisher: Le Livre Qui Parle
• Release date: Jan 1, 2004

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.