by Prosper Mérimée · Hachette · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253138884
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«Mateo Falcone» is the short-story collection by Prosper Mérimée, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (223 pages, in French).
The title story is set in rural Corsica and follows Mateo Falcone, a man of honor forced to make an irrevocable decision to uphold his moral code. Loyalty, revenge and the conflict between personal honor and the law run through the narrative, which is completed by other stories from Mosaïque.
Edition by Jean Balsamo, published in 1995 in the Classiques collection of Le Livre de Poche; 223 pages.
For readers of classic French fiction, especially those seeking short stories set in nineteenth-century Corsica.
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
