by Honoré de Balzac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441000780
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«El coronel Chabert» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Olympia in paperback (283 pages, in Spanish).
A colonel in Napoleon's army, presumed dead at the Battle of Eylau, survives and returns to Paris years later to reclaim his place. Society, his wife and legal interests conspire to deny his existence, and his attempt to re-establish his identity becomes a journey into disillusionment.
The work ranks 24th in the cycle «La comédie humaine» by Honoré de Balzac and was originally published in 1832. This Olympia edition belongs to the collection «Clásicos del mundo».
Suitable for school reading and for those interested in the classics of nineteenth-century French literature.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
