The Girl With The Golden Eyes

Synopsis

In this influential novella, regarded as one of balzac’s greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman—a crazed and annihilating conflict that plays out in the most darkly decadent corners of parisian high society. A handsome, brilliant, consummate hedonist, henri de marsay believes in neither man nor woman, neither god nor the devil. He believes in paris, a city of decadence and sin, a city where every passion is resolved into gold or pleasure. From the first moment henri catches sight of the girl, he is infatuated.