by Prosper Mérimée · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070368198
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«Colomba et dix autres nouvelles» is a collection of short stories by Prosper Mérimée, published by Folio in paperback (500 pages, in French).
«Colomba», set in nineteenth-century Corsica, opens this collection of eleven tales by Mérimée. After the murder of their father, the siblings Orso and Colomba return to their homeland; she wants him to carry out vengeance according to the Corsican code of honour. The collection stands out for its sober prose and portrayal of extreme passions.
Volume I of Mérimée's «Nouvelles complètes», number 819 in the Folio Classique collection, edited by Pierre Josserand.
For students of French and readers of classic French fiction.
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.
