The Girl With The Golden Eyes
Honore de Balzac
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature’s greatest writers. In The ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella–never before published as a stand-alone book–is perhaps the most outlandish thing he ever wrote. While still concerned with the depiction of the underside of Parisian life, as is most of Balzac’s oeuvre, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers not the working lives of the poor, but the sex lives of the upper crust.In a rendering nearly baroque with erotically charged details as well as lush and extravagant language, The Girl with the Golden Eyes tells the story of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth century Paris caught up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. His control slipping, incest, homosexuality, sexual slavery, and violence combine in what was then, and still remains, a shocking and taboo-breaking work.
‘Shocker of the 19th century, dealing with the passion of the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange, unspoilt girl, Paquita–who is virtually enslaved to a sinister lesbian Countess.’ ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
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| ISBN | 9780786705610 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 1833 |
| Publication Date | 29-Dec-98 |
| Publisher | Carroll & Graf Publishers |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 119 |
| Notes | Original Title: La Fille aux yeux d’or
Many reprints, different publishers, different covers and different translators. |
| LoC Classification | PQ2167.F5 .E5 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Translator | Carol Cosman |
| Subject | Brothers And Sisters – Fiction. – France; France – Social Life And Customs – Fiction; Man-woman Relationships – Fiction. – France |
| BookID | 4776 |
