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The Chouans
The Chouans in Bloomington, MN
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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.
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.
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