Lily of the valley

“Are we not among those few creatures who have the privilege of feeling both pain and pleasure in the most intense way, whose nature is so sensitive that they are in permanent unity with the essence of things, whose quality of emotions vibrate in harmony and produce huge internal echoes as if they were part of the same chord? If we leave such harmonious creatures in the middle of a world where everything is in harmony, they will suffer terribly, just as the happiness they will feel when they come across an idea, an emotion, or a similar person that nourishes them is enormous...”

“Balzac does not make the characters of his novel say, think, feel or do things that do not originate from their own social nature and that do not fully comply with the social nature in question, both in terms of abstract determinations and specific determinations. But when it comes to expressing thoughts or feelings with definite content, he does not limit himself to the average expression possibilities of people belonging to a special class. It seeks and always finds the clearest, most precise expression that will reflect the socially certain and well-understood content.”

Georg Lukács

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition