{"product_id":"unwrapping-balzac-samuel-weber-9781487573010","title":"Unwrapping Balzac: A Reading of La Peau de Chagrin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis radically new reading of La peau de charin presents a case for Balzac as a modern rather than a traditional, realist writer. Using the principles and languages of Marx, Derrida, Freud, Barthea, and others who have contributed to a redefinition of modern criticism, Samuel Weber presents a detailed and intricate explication of the text that challenges all standard interpretations of the novel. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional readings of La peau de chagrin, and of Balzac in general, have pursued a message in the novel, a reality beneath the allegory. Weber demonstrates that Balzac's text can be grasped both as a mise en sc ne and as a play of representations that reflects no original truth, reality, or meaning beneath the text to which the representation can be referred and by which they can be authenticated. To unwrap Balzac in this manner is to discover that there is no thing inside, that there is only the 'wrapping.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeber's conclusions are not only startingly original, but they also solve problems which have puzzled traditional readers of the novel since the earliest commentators of 1831. Unwrapping Balzac is a brilliant tour de force that will create controversy among Balzac scholars for years to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Weber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487573014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487573010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Samuel Weber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43936153207039,"sku":"9781487573010","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d131332-0fb6-404b-88bb-49dd3d111540.jpg?v=1681423895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unwrapping-balzac-samuel-weber-9781487573010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}