by Honoré de Balzac · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490322352
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«El coronel Chabert» is Honoré de Balzac's short novel, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Chabert, a Napoleonic colonel presumed dead at Eylau, survives his burial and returns to Paris to reclaim his identity and his place in a society that no longer recognizes him. The volume is completed with «El verdugo», «El elixir de larga vida» and «La obra maestra desconocida», three stories about loyalty, ambition and creation.
Edition in the Clásica collection, with translation by Mercedes López-Ballesteros; includes a chronology and an essay by Paul Bourget.
For readers of French literary classics and stories set during the Napoleonic wars.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
