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Colonel Chabert (novel)
''Le Colonel Chabert'' (English: ''Colonel Chabert'') is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his Novel sequence, series of novels (or ''Roman-fleuve'') known as ''La Comédie humaine'' (''The Human Comedy''), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Bourbon Restoration in France, Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). This novella, originally published in ''Le Constitutionnel'', was adapted for six different motion pictures, including two silent films. Plot summary Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. Colonel Chabert then becomes a French cavalry Military officer, officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau (1807), Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties. However, he survives and after extricating himself from his own grave is nursed back to health by local peasant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his '' magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
