by Prosper Mérimée · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447335831
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«Carmen Colomba» is the volume by Prosper Mérimée containing the novels «Carmen» and «Colomba», in hardback (352 pages), published by RBA Coleccionables in Spanish.
Volume bringing together two works by Prosper Mérimée. «Carmen», set in Seville, follows the passion of soldier José for the gypsy Carmen, a free woman who refuses to be tamed; «Colomba» takes place in nineteenth-century Corsica and shows young Colomba della Rebbia determined to avenge her father for honour.
The book appeared in 2004, in the hardback edition from RBA Coleccionables, with 352 pages in Spanish.
For readers of French classics who enjoy stories of love, fate and revenge.
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.
