Le Colonel Chabert

It's a story that goes into the human heart, revealing its peaks and abysses. Chabert died as a hero, in battle; but ten years later he reappears, to die a second time... An unexpectedly modern narrative spiral, almost Pirandello, between twists and lawyers, wraps itself up to a final bitterness. The short youthful tale that completes the volume composes together, in a perfect and calibrated amalg...