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Colonel Chabert Paperback - 1997
by Honoré de Balzac/ Carol Cosman
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Balzac's character Chabert--thought killed in the Napoleonic wars-- returns to find his wife remarried, his pension gone, and everything changed. Chabert employs a young lawyer named Derville to negotiate recompense, but, unknown to Chabert, Derville also represents Chabert's former wife. As Derville plays the game of law and intrigue, we see why Balzac himself saw post-Revolutionary politics as plagued with corruption.
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Details
- Title Colonel Chabert
- Author Honoré de Balzac/ Carol Cosman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 60260th
- Condition New
- Pages 101
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0811213595
- ISBN 9780811213592 / 0811213595
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.34 x 0.32 in (20.32 x 13.56 x 0.81 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Legal stories, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97010790
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/1997, Page 1737