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BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. Best known for his masterwork novel La
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`I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I am a kind of literary mechanic…´ BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. Best known for his masterwork novel La Comedie Humaine, a multi-novel collection of novels written over twenty years. An excellent content A.L.S., `Balzac´, three pages, 8vo, n.p., 18th [October] 1831, to Samuel-Henry Berthoud, in French. Balzac sends an extremely interesting and unusual content letter referring to himself, as writer, and stating in part `Songez qu'il m'est impossible de vous envoyer la Peau de Chagrin avant une huitaine de jours, vous savez ce que sont les exigences des libraires. Gosselin a gardé toute la première édition pour la vente, - nous avons deux volumes de réimprimés et le 3e ne durera pas longtemps à faire, - ainsi vous aurez 3 beaux volumes décents et honorables au lieu de deux. - J'ai été assassiné par des obligations de journalisme et de plus, je suis forcé d'aller ces jours-ci en Touraine pour une affaire fort désagréable, sans cela j'eusse été vous voir avec un plaisir que je ne saurais exprimer. - Du reste, je n'en ai pas perdu l'espoir, et je crois que la Flandre me verra en Octobre. J'aurai trois ou quatre jours à vous donner, si Dieu le veut. - Si je ne vous ai pas écrit c'est à cause des énormes travaux dans lesquels je suis engagé par suite des besoins pécuniaires que ma maladie et mon inaction forcée m'ont faits´ (Translation: `Remember that it is impossible for me to send you La Peau de Chagrin before a week, you know what the demands of booksellers are. Gosselin has kept the whole first edition for sale, - we have two volumes of reprints and the 3rd won't last long to be made, - so you'll have 3 nice decent and honourable volumes instead of two. - I was murdered by journalism obligations and moreover, I am forced to go to Touraine these days on a very disagreeable business, otherwise I would have gone to see you with a pleasure that I cannot express. - Besides, I have not lost hope, and I believe that Flanders will see me in October. I'll have three or four days to give you, God willing. - If I have not written to you it is because of the enormous work in which I am engaged as a result of the pecuniary needs that my illness and my forced inaction have caused me…´) Balzac further refers to friendship concepts and to himself, including his personal view of himself as writer, saying `Croyez, mon bon ami, que nul mieux que moi ne connais les douceurs de l'amitié, ses lois, et j'ai si bien senti parfois dans la vie le charme qu'il y a d'être aimé que je comprends admirablement bien les pensées dont vous êtes actuellement assailli sur ces étranges amitiés parisiennes qui veulent de l'actualité, qui oublient l'absent, qui souvent s'en moquent. Mais je voudrais vous voir entraîné par notre courant, je voudrais que vous connussiez de quelle religion cordiale vous êtes l'objet, et que de fois une sincère et vive exclamation qui m'échappe vous est accordée au détriment de mes amis présents. Je suis ni un homme, ni ange, ni un diable. Je suis une espèce de mécanique à littérature, je suis hébété de travail. L'autre jour, nous deux Nodier, nous nous confessions que nous nous arrachions les cheveux par moments faute de pouvoir réaliser nos promesses et de ne nous trouver sans un mot à écrire avec des idées plein la tête…´ (Translation: `Believe, my good friend, that no one knows better than I the sweetness of friendship, its laws, and I have sometimes felt so well in life the charm of being loved that I understand admirably well the thoughts with which you are currently assailed on these strange Parisian friendships which want topicality, which forget the absent, which often make fun of it. But I would like to see you carried away by our current, I would like you to know what cordial religion you are the object of, and how often a sincere and lively exclamation which counts out of me is granted to you to the detriment of my present friends. I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I'm a kind of literary mechanic, I'm dazed with work. The other day, Nodiers and I, we confessed that we were tearing our hair out at times because we were unable to fulfill our promises and finding ourselves without a word to write with our heads full of ideas…´) Before concluding Balzac sends and advise to his correspondent, saying `Songez qu'il ne suffit pas d'avoir du talent, des amis prêts à vous servir. Il y a un fait à accomplir, une entente…´ (Translation: `Remember that it is not enough to have talent, friends ready to serve you. There is a fact to be accomplished, an agreement…´) With address leaf in the hand of Balzac, bearing remnants of a former red wax seal and few postmarks. Overall age wear, creasing and small staining, otherwise G Samuel-Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) French Editor of Musée des Familles and friend of Balzac. La Peau de Chagrin (1831) known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass´s Skin is a novel by Balzac which belongs to the Etudes Philosophiques sequence of novels La Comedie Humaine The work tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen (untanned skin from a wild ass) that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
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`I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I am a kind of literary mechanic…´ BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. Best known for his masterwork novel La Comedie Humaine, a multi-novel collection of novels written over twenty years. An excellent content A.L.S., `Balzac´, three pages, 8vo, n.p., 18th [October] 1831, to Samuel-Henry Berthoud, in French. Balzac sends an extremely interesting and unusual content letter referring to himself, as writer, and stating in part `Songez qu'il m'est impossible de vous envoyer la Peau de Chagrin avant une huitaine de jours, vous savez ce que sont les exigences des libraires. Gosselin a gardé toute la première édition pour la vente, - nous avons deux volumes de réimprimés et le 3e ne durera pas longtemps à faire, - ainsi vous aurez 3 beaux volumes décents et honorables au lieu de deux. - J'ai été assassiné par des obligations de journalisme et de plus, je suis forcé d'aller ces jours-ci en Touraine pour une affaire fort désagréable, sans cela j'eusse été vous voir avec un plaisir que je ne saurais exprimer. - Du reste, je n'en ai pas perdu l'espoir, et je crois que la Flandre me verra en Octobre. J'aurai trois ou quatre jours à vous donner, si Dieu le veut. - Si je ne vous ai pas écrit c'est à cause des énormes travaux dans lesquels je suis engagé par suite des besoins pécuniaires que ma maladie et mon inaction forcée m'ont faits´ (Translation: `Remember that it is impossible for me to send you La Peau de Chagrin before a week, you know what the demands of booksellers are. Gosselin has kept the whole first edition for sale, - we have two volumes of reprints and the 3rd won't last long to be made, - so you'll have 3 nice decent and honourable volumes instead of two. - I was murdered by journalism obligations and moreover, I am forced to go to Touraine these days on a very disagreeable business, otherwise I would have gone to see you with a pleasure that I cannot express. - Besides, I have not lost hope, and I believe that Flanders will see me in October. I'll have three or four days to give you, God willing. - If I have not written to you it is because of the enormous work in which I am engaged as a result of the pecuniary needs that my illness and my forced inaction have caused me…´) Balzac further refers to friendship concepts and to himself, including his personal view of himself as writer, saying `Croyez, mon bon ami, que nul mieux que moi ne connais les douceurs de l'amitié, ses lois, et j'ai si bien senti parfois dans la vie le charme qu'il y a d'être aimé que je comprends admirablement bien les pensées dont vous êtes actuellement assailli sur ces étranges amitiés parisiennes qui veulent de l'actualité, qui oublient l'absent, qui souvent s'en moquent. Mais je voudrais vous voir entraîné par notre courant, je voudrais que vous connussiez de quelle religion cordiale vous êtes l'objet, et que de fois une sincère et vive exclamation qui m'échappe vous est accordée au détriment de mes amis présents. Je suis ni un homme, ni ange, ni un diable. Je suis une espèce de mécanique à littérature, je suis hébété de travail. L'autre jour, nous deux Nodier, nous nous confessions que nous nous arrachions les cheveux par moments faute de pouvoir réaliser nos promesses et de ne nous trouver sans un mot à écrire avec des idées plein la tête…´ (Translation: `Believe, my good friend, that no one knows better than I the sweetness of friendship, its laws, and I have sometimes felt so well in life the charm of being loved that I understand admirably well the thoughts with which you are currently assailed on these strange Parisian friendships which want topicality, which forget the absent, which often make fun of it. But I would like to see you carried away by our current, I would like you to know what cordial religion you are the object of, and how often a sincere and lively exclamation which counts out of me is granted to you to the detriment of my present friends. I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I'm a kind of literary mechanic, I'm dazed with work. The other day, Nodiers and I, we confessed that we were tearing our hair out at times because we were unable to fulfill our promises and finding ourselves without a word to write with our heads full of ideas…´) Before concluding Balzac sends and advise to his correspondent, saying `Songez qu'il ne suffit pas d'avoir du talent, des amis prêts à vous servir. Il y a un fait à accomplir, une entente…´ (Translation: `Remember that it is not enough to have talent, friends ready to serve you. There is a fact to be accomplished, an agreement…´) With address leaf in the hand of Balzac, bearing remnants of a former red wax seal and few postmarks. Overall age wear, creasing and small staining, otherwise G Samuel-Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) French Editor of Musée des Familles and friend of Balzac. La Peau de Chagrin (1831) known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass´s Skin is a novel by Balzac which belongs to the Etudes Philosophiques sequence of novels La Comedie Humaine The work tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen (untanned skin from a wild ass) that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
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El Real del Campanario
num.12 Bajo B
Estepona
Malaga
29688
Spain
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