The Chouans

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

The Chouans, the first volume in Balzac's magnificent novel sequence La Comedie Humaine, is the tale of the Royalist uprising in Brittany against the post-revolutionary republic.

Balzac tells it romantically and with passion. Yet his keen eye for documentary detail, together with his mastery of scene-painting, also give the novel authority as an expert study of guerrilla warfare. By interweaving history with adventure, past and present, comedy with tragedy, Balzac created in The Chouans a rich and vivid protrait of the varieties and conditions of men as they are affected by dramatic social and political change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783985317721
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	01/29/2022
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	259
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac, (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and continue to inspire other writers.