L'auberge rouge

Écrit par Honoré de Balzac

Raconté par Caroline Laleta Ballini

Gaston Leroux, entre 1911 et 1924, a publié Quelques nouvelles terrifiantes (6) dont Le Dîner des bustes et L’Auberge épouvantable.

« Deux ans avant notre passage, l’administration vicinale avait découvert, au fond d’un puits et dans une grotte voisine, une douzaine de squelettes et quelques objets ayant appartenu à des voyageurs qui avaient trouvé là une hospitalité fatale et sans lendemain. [...] »

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Ecouter pour comprendre
• Date de sortie: 30 oct. 2008
• ISBN: 9782490824120

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.