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Honoré de Balzac’s ardent and audacious ‘The Girl with the Golden Eyes’
| “This is the magnificent and unforgettable tale in which sensuality grows out of mystery.... The beginning might have come from the pen of Dante, the end from the Thousand and One Nights, but the whole could only be the work of the man who wrote it.”
—Hugo von Hofmannsthal Honoré de Balzac
Translated from the French by Carol Cosman
Introduction by Robert AlterA handsome, brilliant, consummate hedonist, Henri de Marsay believes in neither man nor woman, neither God nor the devil. He believes in Paris, a city of decadence and sin, a city where every passion is resolved into gold or pleasure. From the first moment Henri catches sight of a girl with “two
yellow eyes like the eyes of a tiger,” he is infatuated. And so is she. Though closely guarded by a stern chaperone, she manages to brush against him in the street and squeeze his hand. Desperate for another glimpse of this “woman of fire,” Henri returns every day to where he last saw her until he learns her name, Paquita Valdes, and her address, a forbidding mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare protected by vicious dogs. Penetrating this palace becomes Henri's obsession. He makes elaborate plans and enlists the help of a secret society, the Devorants, but when at last he enters, he learns a bitter truth not only about the girl but about his own half-sister. His erotic quest ends in bloodshed. The Girl with the Golden Eyes is one of the most memorable and fantastic episodes in Balzac's Human Comedy—its dark vision of Paris and human sexuality an inspiration to Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust. For three days only, The Girl with the Golden Eyes is available at 25% off along with four other books by or about Balzac: |
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