Le Colonel Chabert

La Comédie Humaine #24

by Honoré de Balzac

Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Napoléon. Laissé pour mort sur ​​le champ de bataille d'Eylau et ayant perdu sa mémoire, il a passé un an dans un asile. Le roman commence quand il revient à Paris, à la vie qu'il avait laisse derrière lui, seulement pour découvrir que, en son absence, sa vie - sa famille, sa société, son identité - a changé. Napoléon est déposée, l'aristocratie est revenu au pouvoir, comme si la révolution ne s'était jamais produit. Sa femme, croyant qu'il était mort, s'est remariée avec un aristocrate. Horrifié car elle prétend qu'elle ne le reconnaît pas, et rendu malade par une société qui ne reconnaît pas ses mérites antérieurs, Chabert fait la promesse de regagner son argent et sa réputation.

Genres: Classics, France, Fiction, French Literature, 19th Century, School, Literature

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1832

About the author

French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles John Huffam Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, and Jack Kerouac as well as important philosophers, such as Friedrich Engels. Many works of Balzac, made into films, continue to inspire.

An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac adapted with trouble to the teaching style of his grammar. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. Balzac finished, and people then apprenticed him as a legal clerk, but after wearying of banal routine, he turned his back on law. He attempted a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician before and during his career. He failed in these efforts From his own experience, he reflects life difficulties and includes scenes.

Possibly due to his intense schedule and from health problems, Balzac suffered throughout his life. Financial and personal drama often strained his relationship with his family, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime paramour; five months later, he passed away.

Reviews

[Nataša Bjelogrlić]

"Несрећа је једне врсте амајлија, чије је својство да ојача оно што нам је урођено: код неких људи развије неповерење и злобу, као што код оних који имају дивно срце увећа доброту."

[Ratko]

Ова књига нашла ми се на радару због тога што је споменута у Зебалдовом „Аустерлицу“, те сам, имајући у виду краткотоћу, узео да је прочитам “преко реда“.
Пуковник Шабер, славни војсковођа проглашен је мртвим након једне од битака у Наполеоновим ратовима. Чудом спасен, након неколико година се враћа у Париз, покушавајући да поврати свој углед, право на идентитет, своју супругу и имање. На том неизвесном путу ће имати разне перипетије и заврзламе и то чини заплет новеле/романа.
Иако волим Балзаково писање, ово ми је било превише романтичарски. Више волим реалнијег Балзака.

(опет молба за библиотекаре - да се убаци насловница из едиције "Реч и мисао")