A character in this series is poisoned alongside her husband by her former lover, a Brazilian baron, after marrying a perfumer for his money.
A character in this series is poisoned alongside her husband by her former lover, a Brazilian baron, after marrying a perfumer for his money. In a work of this series, a sculptor falls in love with an actress only to find out that she is a castrato, sending the sculptor into a murderous rage after Zambinella. In another work in this series, a Polish sculptor named Wenceslas Steinbock marries Hortense Hulot (or- TONSE yoo-LOW). The title object of a work in this series grows smaller every time that it grants a wish to Raphael de Valentin (vah-lon-TAN), and a story in it was analyzed by Roland Barthes in S/Z. The criminal Vautrin (voh-TRAN) and the ambitious Rastignac (ross-teen-YOCK) are characters in this series, which includes "Sarrasine", The Wild Ass's Skin, and Cousin Bette. For 10 points, name this sprawling series of novels by Honoré de Balzac.
A character in this series is poisoned alongside her husband by her former lover, a Brazilian baron, after marrying a perfumer for his money.
The Human Comedy [or La Comédie humaine]