Name: Le Colonel Chabert (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Livre de Poche

Language

French

Pages

191

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5x10.9x1.3 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN

2253098043

ISBN13

9782253098041

Synopsis "Le Colonel Chabert (in French)"

Enfant trouvé, fasciné par la carrière des armes, Hyacinthe dit Chabert s'est illustré aux premiers rangs de la Grande Armée. Laissé pour mort à Eylau, puis miraculeusement sauvé, il tentera quelques années plus tard de retrouver sa place dans une France bourgeoise qui veut oublier ses héros, auprès d'une femme qui lui doit tout, qui l-a dépouillé et qui le rejette.Nul destin, peut-ètre, n'éclaire mieux que le sien l'envers de la comédie humaine , dans cette tragédie domestique doublée d'un drame social où le sublime côtoie constamment le sordide.Nous n'oublierons jamais l'entrée pitoyable de Chabert à l'étude Derville éclairée au gaz le matin, avec le déjeuner, réchauffé sur la cheminée, des clercs, des clercs rieurs, insolents et clabaudeurs, Chabert avec ses rides blanches, son vieux carrick, Chabert méprisé, aliéné de cette patrie et de cette femme qu'il continue à aimer, dénoncé de cette société où, bien qu'enfant trouvé, il s'était, si difficilement, fait un nom... Chabert a sa place dans toutes les mémoires, à côté du cousin Pons et du père Goriot, et sur le mème rang.Le Colonel Chabert, admirable histoire de revenant.Paul Morand.Edition de Stéphane Vachon.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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