Colonel Chabert

Honore de Balzac

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Colonel Chabert

Honore de Balzac
FictionNDP848First published 1997

Balzac once referred to art as “nature concentrated.” And nowhere did his own art achieve such a rarefied state as in Colonel Chabert––one of the celebrated “Scenes from Private Life” from La Comédie Humaine. Chabert is among Balzac’s most tragic heroes: a...

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Colonel Chabert

Honore de Balzac

NEW DIRECTIONS