His wife has remarried and born two children to a new husband.
His fortune has been divided. The man standing in front of them cannot be the dashing looking colonel. This is an old man who seems to have seen nothing but poverty and misery.
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The clerks who do not believe the old man send him away and tell him to return at one in the morning, the only hour during which the lawyer receives his clients. When Chabert returns Derville is gruff at first but he is not only an ambitious young man, he is also very intelligent and kind-hearted. He pities the poor man and allows him to tell his story. The Colonel who has shown Derville the deep scar on his skull, tells him how he was mortally wounded by a sabre, who almost split his skull in two.
When they finally discovered him, they declared him dead and buried him. He regained consciousness later in the grave and managed to dig himself out from underneath corpses, earth and snow. This is a truly creepy scene that reminded me of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Ten years have passed since that episode. Ten years of suffering and erring during which the Colonel wrote to his wife a few times.
Hoping to make a better marriage she pretends not to believe that he is alive.
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His former wife, now the Countess Ferraud, is one of the ugliest characters of Balzac whose novels are full of greedy, vile people. I am not sure if it would be ideal to start reading Balzac with Le Colonel Chabert. It is very short but extremely complex and a lot of allusions to French history are almost crammed into it. To fully comprehend the story it is good to know something about French history. Which one do you like? Cousin Bette and Pere Goriot are great favourites.
He is better in the longer form, I believe but the style is very good. Some of the longer ones have sloppy passages. Maybe they got rid of that in the translations? The film version is good too. I thought that that was short and Le Colonel Chabert long. I never started it.
That happens to me as well, I remember exactly whether I liked something but not the whole content. Pere Goriot is my favorite Balzac, although perhaps it is a sentimental favorite as it is the first I read and the one that hooked me on Balzac. It is an incredible book, probabaly one in which most of the important characters appear or are mentioned.
Well, I still have a lot before me.
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Horace Bianchon goes on to appear in around twenty of the stories and slightly fewer for Eugene de Rastignac. I think in this regard it is by far his most fascinating novel. You may remember when she was off pawning stuff and borrowing money as her father lay dying—that is her connection in Gobseck. La Femme abandonnee is Madame de Beauseant. It is biographies of the approximately two thousand characters appearing in the Comedie humaine.
Usually I had forgotten by the time I read a particular work anyway. The Balzac group at Yahoo began reading the entire Comedie humaine in and are now coming down the home stretch. There is a lot of information in the files there and anyone who is interested is welcome to join. It has a list of the characters and the stories in which they appear.
These are great resources, thanks a lot. After a while one mixes up the characters. Have you watched Unknown? I would like to watch this. Hope your government will give up this law soon. I will have to remedy that as this sounds really interesting, though I will start with Cousin Bette perhaps, as you recommend. I am sure you would like Cousin Bette. Even this one as it is very short. But I have a particular soft spot for Eugenie Grandet. I also liked La peau de chagrin, because the ideas about desire are so delightfully weird.
What you say about La peau de chagrin makes me curious now. Yes, his coffee addiction is something quite incredible. I wonder occasionally how prolific he would have been without it. La Peau de Chagrin is a fascinating book. I can still remember the first time I read the description of the antique shop. I did find parts of it quite tedious though. I once saw an old tv production of it on one of those anthology series.
This would probably have been in the early 60s. It was titled The Skin of the Ass, or something like that. I was unaware of Balzac at the time, but the story stuck with me all those years. I think bookaroundthecorner found it quite tedious. Thanks for the link.
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