Honore was not just one of the famous French writers. His works influenced the minds of such eminent writes as Charles Dickens, William Faulkner and many French writers. He is fairly supposed to be one of the realism genre's fathers, mostly due to his coup de maître of presenting human life as it is, without any artificial embroidery. He also depicted France in all the details that let you feel involved into the reality of his time.

As for his amazing novel "The Wild Ass's Skin", it is a bit different from all his other works. It includes elements of magical mystery - so atypical of his style! However, he could not resist the pleasure of adding drama to the plot. The bitter revelation comes to the main hero, as well as the reverence for his talent of a writer comes to his faithful readers.

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