The Magic Skin

The Magic Skin

Honore de Balzac

InläsareJohn Bolen
Längd9 tim 58 min
Språken
FörlagTantor Media
ISBN9781400180868

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it."

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.