Le Colonel Chabert: A story that goes into the human heart

By Honore de Balzac

It's a story that goes into the human heart, revealing its peaks and abysses. Chabert died as a hero, in battle; but ten years later he reappears, to die a second time... An unexpectedly modern narrative spiral, almost Pirandello, between twists and lawyers, wraps itself up to a final bitterness. The short youthful tale that completes the volume composes together, in a perfect and calibrated amalgam, atmospheres of terror, suspense and intense spiritual suggestion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dnl Media
• Release date: Jun 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9788418754869

Honore de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.