"Tue par un exces d'amour": (Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio di Urbino, French novelist Honore de Balzac, nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
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The body, its desires, and narrative are associated in the 19th-century realist novel. Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio di Urbino, French novelist Honore de Balzac, and nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres are related through these themes. Raphael had the archetypal artist-model relationship with his mistress-model. 'La Peau de Chagrin' by Balzac is important in modern French realism and is an early example of the body of the model as a sort of character, even though the book is not obviously about art, artists or models. Ingres's biography can be seen as a revision of Raphael's biography, dealing with desire and death.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1998
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That sudden shrinking feeling: exchange in 'La Peau de chagrin.' (by Honore de Balzac)
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The speech of the antiquarian in Honore de Balzac's 1831 novel 'La Peau de chagrin' with its proposition of a pact inscribed on the skin and the discourse of the noted engineer Planchette form two poles of the novel's dialectical tension. Planchette lectures Raphael de Valentin that the universe's nature is movement when de Valentin asks Planchette to stop the onager's skin from withering. Feelings and vital energy operate within constraints similar to those which regulate economic and other 19th century exchange systems.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1997
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Sotto voce - opera in the novel: the case of 'Le Pere Goriot.'
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Honore de Balzac's 'Le Pere Goriot' allows the study of the appropriation of the opera's music by the novel. The music becomes a technique for organizing the novel in much the same way that musical theater would be organized. Having a character enter singing is an operatic use of space and puts the reader in the role of audience. The music overflows its context and ultimately performs itself on the character who is the lead singer, Vautrin.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1996
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