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.

A 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 the girl, 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 in Salomé and to Marcel Proust, whose Baron de Charlus praises its author for his knowledge "even of those passions which the rest of the world ignores, or studies only to castigate them."

展開看更多

查看全部

作者介紹

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège Vendôme and the Sorbonne. He began his career as a pseudonymous writer of sensational potboilers before achieving success with a historical novel, The Chouans. Balzac then conceived his great work, The Human Comedy, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to offer a complete picture of contemporary society and manners. Always working under an extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years, including such masterpieces as Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, and Cousin Bette. In 1850, he married Eveline Hańska, a rich Polish woman with whom he had long conducted an intimate correspondence. Three months later he died. In addition to The Girl with the Golden Eyes, NYRB Classics publishes The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, The Lily in the Valley, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, and The Unknown Masterpiece.

Carol Cosman translated numerous French books over a range of genres--fiction, biography, memoirs, history, and philosophy. In addition to her translation of short fiction by Balzac, her English version of Jean-Paul Sartre's three-thousand-page The Family Idiot is especially noteworthy.

Robert Alter is an emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written widely on the European novel, particularly Balzac and Flaubert, and is the author of a critical biography of Stendhal. He lives in Berkeley.

規格

誠品貨碼 /

ISBN13 / 9781681379067

ISBN10 /

EAN貨碼 / 9781681379067

裝訂 / P:平裝

語言 / 3:英文

級別 / N:無

頁數 / 112

尺寸 / 20.3X13.0X1.0CM

重量(g) / 136.1

退貨說明

退貨須知：

依照消費者保護法的規定，您享有商品貨到次日起七天猶豫期(含例假日)的權益(請注意！猶豫期非試用期)，辦理退貨之商品必須是全新狀態(不得有刮傷、破損、受潮)且需完整(包含全部商品、配件、原廠內外包裝、贈品及所有附隨文件或資料的完整性等)。
請您以送貨廠商使用之包裝紙箱將退貨商品包裝妥當，若原紙箱已遺失，請另使用其他紙箱包覆於商品原廠包裝之外，切勿直接於原廠包裝上黏貼紙張或書寫文字。若原廠包裝損毀將可能被認定為已逾越檢查商品之必要程度，本公司得依毀損程度扣除回復原狀必要費用(整新費)後退費；請您先確認商品正確、外觀可接受，再行拆封，以免影響您的權利；若為產品瑕疵，本公司接受退貨。

依「通訊交易解除權合理例外情事適用準則」，下列商品不適用七日猶豫期，除產品本身有瑕疵外，不接受退貨：

易於腐敗、保存期限較短或解約時即將逾期。(如:生鮮蔬果、乳製品、冷凍冷藏食材、蛋糕)
依消費者要求所為之客製化給付。(如:客製印章、鋼筆刻字)
報紙、期刊或雜誌。
經消費者拆封之影音商品或電腦軟體。
非以有形媒介提供之數位內容或一經提供即為完成之線上服務，經消費者事先同意始提供。(如:電子書)
已拆封之個人衛生用品。(如:內衣褲、襪類、褲襪、刮鬍刀、除毛刀等貼身用品)
國際航空客運服務。

若您退貨時有下列情形，可能被認定已逾越檢查商品之必要程度而須負擔為回復原狀必要費用(整新費)，或影響您的退貨權利，請您在拆封前決定是否要退貨：

以數位或電磁紀錄形式儲存或著作權相關之商品(包含但不限於CD、VCD、DVD、電腦軟體等) 包裝已拆封者(除運送用之包裝以外)。
耗材(包含但不限於墨水匣、碳粉匣、紙張、筆類墨水、清潔劑補充包等)之商品包裝已拆封者(除運送用之包裝以外)。
衣飾鞋類/寢具/織品(包含但不限於衣褲、鞋子、襪子、泳裝、床單、被套、填充玩具)或之商品缺件(含購買商品、附件、內外包裝、贈品等)或經剪標或下水或商品有不可回復之髒污或磨損痕跡。
食品、美容/保養用品、內衣褲等消耗性或個人衛生用品、商品銷售頁面上特別載明之商品已拆封者(除運送用之包裝外一切包裝、包括但不限於瓶蓋、封口、封膜等接觸商品內容之包裝部分)或已非全新狀態(外觀有刮傷、破損、受潮等)與包裝不完整(缺少商品、附件、原廠外盒、保護袋、配件紙箱、保麗龍、隨貨文件、贈品等)。
家電、3C、畫作、電子閱讀器等商品，除商品本身有瑕疵外，退回之商品已拆封(除運送用之包裝外一切包裝、包括但不限於封膜等接觸商品內容之包裝部分、移除封條、拆除吊牌、拆除貼膠或標籤等情形)或已非全新狀態(外觀有刮傷、破損、受潮等)與包裝不完整(缺少商品、附件、原廠外盒、保護袋、配件紙箱、保麗龍、隨貨文件、贈品等)。
退貨程序請參閱【客服專區→常見問題→誠品線上退貨退款】之說明。

付款/配送

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

GIRL W/THE GOLDEN EYES

內容簡介

作者介紹

規格

退貨說明

作者相關書籍