The author “Balzac” and his mask “Noré” The Lettres à Madame Hanska or from Having to Being: Authoriality and libido

An experiment in writing intimacy, Balzac’s letters to Madame Hanska allowed him to suggest some masks that show what he intends to be. Masks that are in no way lies, but rather suggestions for being-in-the-world, ontological selections worked on and chosen as a set for their existential and stylistic idiosyncrasy. When the founding authorial plot becomes a human plot.