The Wild Ass’s Skin

Book Review: Classic Supernatural Satire — “The Wild Ass’s Skin”

August 15, 2012
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Helen Constantine’s new translation of Balzac’s “The Wild Ass’s Skin” serves this wonderful and weird book well. It is one of the great, black comic fables in world literature, a dazzlingly demented exploration of a society’s lack of imagination.

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