Colonel Chabert - Couverture souple

Balzac, Honore De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1481170031 ISBN 13 : 9781481170031

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

In Le Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system, founded on honour and military valour; and that of the Restoration. Chabert was not killed at the Battle of Eylau, though it was thought that he was. He struggles back to life but cannot reclaim his identity. His “widow”, who is actually his wife, and who fittingly was a prostitute in her early adult years, is now the Comtesse Ferraud, married (or so it would seem) to an important Restoration nobleman and politician. She repudiates her “former” husband (just as Ferraud, in changed political circumstances, would now be happy to repudiate her). All that matters in the modern era is social rank based upon the possession of money, especially inherited wealth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481170031
• ISBN 13: 9781481170031
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible