The Magic Skin - Honoré de Balzac

The Magic Skin

By Honoré de Balzac

  • Release Date: 2012-06-19
  • Genre: Literary Criticism

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Description

Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him his every wish, but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of nineteenth-century France.