Colonel Chabert - Softcover

De Balzac, Honore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811213595 ISBN 13: 9780811213592

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Honore de Balzac

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Reseña del editor

Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...

Contraportada

Balzac once referred to art as "nature concentrated". And nowhere did his own art achieve such a rarefied state as in Colonel Chabert - one of the celebrated "Scenes from Private Life" from La Comedie Humaine. Chabert is among Balzac's most tragic heroes: a decorated Napoleonic War veteran believed to have been killed in battle. Severely disfigured, the Colonel, returns to Paris as if risen from the grave. There he finds his wife remarried, his pension gone, and his name linked nostalgically to the faded days of Empire. Employing a young lawyer named Derville, Chabert finds an ally to negotiate the labyrinthine system of Restoration justice; but as Derville plays the game of law and intrigue, we discover why Balzac himself thought that most post-Revolutionary politics were plagued with corruption. Chabert, despite his dignity, his history, his status as a fallen warrior, is no match for a society driven by the wiles of lawyers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0811213595
• ISBN 13: 9780811213592
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 101