Farewell
By Honoré de Balzac
2 Jan, 2020
Published in 1830, Farewell is a short, but very intensive novella by the founder of European realism, Honoré de Balzac. The complex short story is about the horrors of wars and the mutilating effect of warfare on human lives - subject matter that c
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Published in 1830, Farewell is a short, but very intensive novella by the founder of European realism, Honoré de Balzac. The complex short story is about the horrors of wars and the mutilating effect of warfare on human lives - subject matter that combines with Balzac's extraordinary storytelling style to make a powerful text, providing the reader with a profound and shaking experience.
Farewell is part of Balzac's most important work, La Comédie Humaine, a huge collection of short stories set in France in the period after Napoleon's fall. Just like the other stories in the collection, Farewell can be read as a completely independent writing or as an essential and organic part of the big picture that Balzac proposes to offer to his readers with his magnum opus. Less