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Book Title:The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
Item Height:196mm
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Author:Honore De Balzac
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Language:English
Topic:Literature,Short Stories,Books
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Publication Year:2012
Item Weight:146g
Number of Pages:192 Pages

The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories by Peter Collier, Patrick Coleman, Honoré de Balzac The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzacs mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th centurys richest explorations of life and art. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure. Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness ofthe singers voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. Andin The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-centurys richest explorations of art and desire.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providingthe most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Author Biography Peter Collier has previously translated Zolas Germinal for Oxford Worlds Classics. Patrick Colemans books include editions of Rousseaus Confessions and Discourses on Inequality and Constants Adolphe for Oxford Worlds Classics, and Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Oxford, 2011). He has recently edited Helen Constantines translation of Balzacs The Wild Asss Skin (forthcoming in OxfordWorlds Classics, June 2012). Table of Contents SarrasineThe Unknown MasterpieceThe Girl with the Golden Eyes Promotional These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. Long Description What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure. Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness ofthe singers voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. Andin The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-centurys richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providingthe most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Feature The only edition of these three great Balzac novellas in one volume, which together offer a rounded view of Balzacs reflection on the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires.These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity are among the great works of nineteenth-century fiction.Sarrasine appears for the first time in English as part of a paperback collection of Balzacs work (having only been available previously as an appendix to Roland Barthess critical exploration of the story, S/Z.The first edition in English of The Unknown Masterpiece to record the important variants, which are crucial to the interpretation of Balzacs presentation of the ambiguous relationship between art and erotic desire.Introduction builds on the latest scholarship to help the reader appreciate the connections between notions of gender and the aesthetic explorations of nineteenth-century French romanticism and realism.Thorough notes explain all important cultural and political references. Details ISBN0199571287 Year 2012 ISBN-10 0199571287 ISBN-13 9780199571284 Media Book Short Title GIRL W/THE GOLDEN EYES & OTHER Language English Series Oxford Worlds Classics Translator Peter Collier Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 843.7 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2012-11-08 NZ Release Date 2012-11-08 Edited by Francisco Werner Birth 1938 Affiliation Director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ, USA Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Author Honoré de Balzac Pages 192 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2012-11-08 Audience General AU Release Date 2012-11-19 We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items – you’re bound to find what you want, at a price you’ll love! TheNile_Item_ID:47712491;

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