The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman, Robert Alter

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NYRB Classics
05 August 2025

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

In this influential novella, regarded as one of Balzac's greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman-a crazed and annihilating conflict that plays out in the most darkly decadent corners of Parisian high society.

In this influential novella, regarded as one of Balzac's greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman-a crazed and annihilating conflict that plays out in the most darkly decadent corners of Parisian high society.

Beautiful and amoral, 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 de Marsay catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes he is completely and utterly infatuated. Desperate for another glimpse of her dark and enigmatic beauty, every day he returns to where he last saw her. Over time, he learns of her name, Paquita Valdes, and of her address, a forbidding and heavily guarded mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare.

Vowing to make her his, Henri de Marsay plots his elaborate seduction of the mysterious girl with the golden eyes, but with his triumph comes the bitter revelation that he has a powerful rival for her love-the Marquise de San-Real, his own half-sister.

A cry of vengeance and the call for blood bring Balzac's taut exploration of the dark side of Parisian society to its unexpected if inevitable conclusion.

By: Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman
Introduction by: Robert Alter
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781681379067
ISBN 10: 1681379066
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 05 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Postponed Indefinitley

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist widely regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Carol Cosman (1943-2020) was a translator of French literature, including works by Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, mile Durkheim, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Robert Alter is a scholar, literary critic, and translator of the Hebrew Bible. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Art of Biblical Narrative, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and he is recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman, Robert Alter

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