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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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Chinese fiction, Fiction, France, French fiction, Justice and politics, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Social life and customs, Translations from French, Translations into Chinese, Veterans, Administration of Justice, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815--veterans, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815--veterans--fiction, Justice, administration of--political aspects, Justice, administration of--political aspects--fiction, Pq2163 .c713 1997, 843/.7Places
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Colonel Chabert (Hesperus Classics)
March 1, 2003, Hesperus Press
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Colonel Chabert
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Xiabei shang xiao: Gao lao tou
1998, Anhui wen yi chu ban she
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