Yankees at the court of King Arthur

According to the works of Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), one can make an exhaustive idea of ​​the history and everyday life of France in the first half of the 19th century. But Balzac not only described the world around him, he also created his own world - a multi -volume “human comedy”. Balzak heroes are people, embraced by strong, all -consuming and most often destructive passion. Their own desires are deadly. In the novel “Shagrenic Skin”, Balzac described this situation with the help of an expressive metaphor: the magical talisman fulfills all the desires of the protagonist, but each fulfilled desire shortens his life. The artist’s passion to perfection, described in the story “An unknown masterpiece” is also disastrous