The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories - Honoré De Balzac

'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 of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his... Zobrazit více