by Prosper Merimee · tapa dura · ISBN 9781111296643
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«Colomba» is the novel by Prosper Mérimée published by Macmillan Company in hardback, in English.
Set in nineteenth-century Corsica, the story revolves around Colomba, a young Corsican woman seeking to avenge the murder of her father, killed by a rival family. Mérimée portrays the vendetta as a social code and explores honour, justice and the island's deep-rooted customs.
Originally published in 1840; this English edition dates from 1920.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics interested in tales of revenge and codes of honour.
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.
