A Study on the Salomon and Shagreen Leather’s similarities

Honore de Balzac, the French realistic author, offers us a work that might be the one of the greatest real-fantastic works in 19th century. In the story of Leather Shagreen, the reader is introduced two Balzac’s mental aspects of Balzac namely critical point understanding and imaginative Balzac which explain Balzac’s interests in supernatural forces, talisman and superstition. The story Leather Shagreen points to a pieces of miraculous leather which surely is similar to Solomon’s seal. In this comparative study, we showed the two stories’ similarities, which indicates that stories might have a common source. Then the characters and elements of the story are studied