Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3986475346
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Le Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac - Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. He then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau, Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.
Le Colonel Chabert
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3986475346
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Le Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac - Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. He then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau, Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3986475346
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Le Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac - Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. He then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau, Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.
Le colonel Chabert
Author: Honoré de Balzac
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Languages : fr
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Languages : fr
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Le Colonel Chabert
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: European Masterpieces
ISBN: 9781589770645
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 114
Book Description
A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert hires a lawyer to obtain justice, but the lawyer is playing a double game--unknown to the colonel he is working for the wife.
Publisher: European Masterpieces
ISBN: 9781589770645
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 114
Book Description
A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert hires a lawyer to obtain justice, but the lawyer is playing a double game--unknown to the colonel he is working for the wife.
Le Colonel Chabert
Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. He then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau, Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Colonel Chabert marries Rose Chapotel, a prostitute. He then becomes a French cavalry officer who is held in high esteem by Napoleon Bonaparte. After being severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau, Chabert is recorded as dead and buried with other French casualties.
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration
Author: Keri Yousif
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of the Romantic revolution and its immediate aftermath. Both men were social portraitists who collaborated on the influential encyclopedic portrayal of nineteenth-century society, Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. However, their collaboration soon turned competitive with Grandville's publication of Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, a visual parody of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée. Yousif investigates Balzac's and Grandville's individual and joint artistic productions in terms of the larger economic and aesthetic struggles within the nineteenth-century arena of cultural production, showing how writers were forced to position themselves both in terms of the established literary hierarchy and in relation to the rapidly advancing image. As Yousif shows, the industrialization of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer, and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair. Her study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literature, art, and their interactions in a new marketplace for publication during the fraught transition from Romanticism to Realism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of the Romantic revolution and its immediate aftermath. Both men were social portraitists who collaborated on the influential encyclopedic portrayal of nineteenth-century society, Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. However, their collaboration soon turned competitive with Grandville's publication of Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, a visual parody of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée. Yousif investigates Balzac's and Grandville's individual and joint artistic productions in terms of the larger economic and aesthetic struggles within the nineteenth-century arena of cultural production, showing how writers were forced to position themselves both in terms of the established literary hierarchy and in relation to the rapidly advancing image. As Yousif shows, the industrialization of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer, and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair. Her study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literature, art, and their interactions in a new marketplace for publication during the fraught transition from Romanticism to Realism.
Le colonel Chabert
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : French fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 124
Book Description
La Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191633380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. And in The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-century's richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191633380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. And in The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-century's richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Colonel Chabert
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613101562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613101562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Spectacular Past
Author: Maurice Samuels
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.