Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu

Écrit par Honoré de Balzac

Raconté par Nicolas Planchais

Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu est une nouvelle d’Honoré de Balzac de 1831. Ce texte, à la fois fantastique et philosophique, est une véritable réflexion sur l'art, l'artiste et la création. La poursuite d'un idéal de perfection dans la création artistique peut il conduire à la folie ? Cette histoire où l'on devine quelques figures mythiques, Orphée, Pygmalion, et Prométhée, peut le laisser penser.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Compagnie Du Savoir Audio
• Date de sortie: 1 janv. 2014
• ISBN: 9782821105027

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.