Seraphita

Séraphîta by Honoré de Balzac

Another of Balzac’s metaphysical novels that features his version of mystical somnambulism influenced by Swedenborg. A gender-shifting angel proclaims the unity of the material and spiritual worlds as s/he ascends into heaven.

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(English) Balzac, Honoré de. Seraphita. Trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Dodo Press, 2006.

(French) Balzac, Honoré de. Séraphîta. La Comédie humaine. [The Human Comedy]. Ed. Pierre-Georges Castex. Vol. 11. Paris: Gallimard, 1980. 12 vols. 1976-81.