Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin
(2017)
Journal Article
Dickson, P. (2017). Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin. Nineteenth-century French studies, 45(3-4), 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2017.0002
In this article, I read Balzac's La Peau de chagrin as a novel of feeling, in which Raphaël's act of telling his life story entails a sensory encounter with the narrative self. Beginning with the novel's emblematic epigraph, then following through a... Read More about Figures of Feeling in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin.