... release of Yves Angelo's cinematic adaptation of Le Colonel Chabert in 1994. I also wanted to talk about the way literary representations of war, such as Balzac's texts on Napoleonic veterans, could be adapted, interpreted, and understood within new military and historical contexts. I was interested in how literary preoccupations with soldierly suffering and veteran return had been adapted by texts that both preceded and followed Le Colonel Chabert. And beyond issues of textual representation, I ...
Tópico(s): French Literature and Critical Theory
2006 - University of North Carolina Press | The Comparatist/Comparatist
... 5). Compelling readings of Adieu (1830) and Le Colonel Chabert (1832) assert Balzac's "rejection of the way ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Analyses
2006 - Johns Hopkins University Press | L'esprit créateur/L'Esprit créateur