· One of the key novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine, The Wild Ass's Skin is freshly translated by Helen Constantine, capturing Balzac's stylistic energy and exuberance. Wide-ranging introduction considers the multiple perspectives of the novel, from its initial cultural and material contexts, its conceptualization of historical change and satirical commentary on contemporary society, to its . The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac, Honore de Seller BookVistas Published Condition New ISBN Item Price $. · 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 premise Balzac weaves a compelling psychological portrait of his hero, a prisoner of his own Promethean imagination, and explores profound ideas about the human will, vice and virtue, love and death.
In this novel, a young man finds a piece of magical rawhide and begins making wishes. However, with each wish that is granted, the skin shrinks, and the man becomes feebler. A warning against greed, the novel established Balzac's literary rep. Title: The Wild Ass's Skin By: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Vendor: Oxford University Press Publication Date: Dimensions: X X (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: ISBN Series: Oxford World's Classics Stock No: WW The Wild Ass's Skin. by Honoré de Balzac. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it.
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from The Wild Ass's Skin “Si alguna ave de las que se hallan en el corral está enferma o lastimada, las otras la acometen a picotazos, la despluman y la matan. Fiel a esta ley fundamental del egoísmo, el mundo prodiga sus rigores a las miserias bastante osadas para venir a arrostrar sus fiestas, para entristecer. The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac, Honore de Seller BookVistas Published Condition New ISBN Item Price $. Balzac’s novel, ‘The Wild Ass’s Skin’, belongs to a genre that I call philosophical fantasy and is one of my favorite types of stories. The novel was written not too many years after Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and it predated by a few decades such notable works as Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’.
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