The Wild Ass's Skin
'Who possesses me will possess all things,But his life will belong to me...'Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with magical properties. It will grant its possessor his every wish, but each time a wish is bestowed the skin shrinks, hastening its owner's death. Around this fantastic premiseBalzac weaves a compelling psychological portrait of his hero, a prisoner of…
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Weitere Autoren: Constantine, Helen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-162729-3
- EAN: 9780191627293
- Produktnummer: 13997561
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'383 KB
Über den Autor
Helen Constantine taught languages in schools before becoming a full-time translator. She has published three volumes of translated stories for OUP, Paris Tales, French Tales, and Paris Metro Tales. She has translated Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin and Laclos' Dangerous Liaisons for Penguin, and with her husband David Constantine, edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.Patrick Coleman's books include editions of Rousseau's Confessions and Discourse on Inequality and Constant's Adolphe for Oxford World's Classics, and Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Oxford, 2011).
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