"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.
"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.
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The Human Comedy : A Monumental Collection of 19th-Century French Literature in One Volume
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A Daughter of Eve
Collected Works of Honore de Balzac. Illustrated : The Complete Human Comedy, Father Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Betty and others
The Collected Works of Honore de Balzac
A Woman at Thirty
A Second Home
A Start in Life
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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