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It is seldom that I give a 4 or 5 star rating however this book certainly deserves the 4 star. It is well written, the charatars are well devleoped and the author pulls you into the book and plot. It is the type of book that once you are into it that you just don't want to put it down. You just have to see what will happen next and how it evolves. The descriptive areas are somewhat long and certainly express the character's feelings of betrayal at the hands of his wife. It can be a little harsh and long in going into his feelings but if one remembers that this is the character's feelings then you can understand it and take it with a grain of salt. I would classify it as a drama, not a mystery as you can easily surmize where the basic plot is going you just don't know how and there are some neat little twists. I reccommend this book.Product details
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Vendetta eBook Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley Reviews
A slim tale that can be read in an afternoon, Vendetta tells a fascinating tale of a family torn apart by pride and destructive revenge. A highly melodramatic Romeo & Juliet-type story, it nonetheless has interesting things to say about the conflict between the royalists and the Bonapartists in France in the early 19th century. It also diverges from the familiar Romeo & Juliet tale somewhat by the end. Lovely.
Vendetta is a novella of about 65 pages in length, written by Honoré de Balzac and originally published in 1830. It is one of the earliest works in his extensive series of writings known as the Comédie Humaine.
Bartolomeo di Piombo is a Corsican who kills his neighbor's family in accordance with a vendetta, or blood feud, between the two clans. He flees to Paris and asks his old friend Napoleon for assistance in establishing a life there. Flash forward fifteen years the Bourbon monarchy has been restored, Napoleon has been defeated, and those formerly loyal to the Emperor have fallen into disfavor. Piombo's daughter Ginevra has grown into a beautiful and intelligent young woman with a promising future as a painter. This innocent girl is destined for tragedy, however, as she must inevitably suffer the consequences of her father's vindictive obsession.
While the premise set up in the opening chapter promises excitement and suspense, Vendetta is really a rather conventional and familiar tale of forbidden romance between star-crossed lovers. The narrative takes the form of a series of tense and urgent conversations, all of which seem a bit unnecessarily long because their conclusions are so predictable. Balzac emphasizes the stubborn resoluteness of Bartolomeo and Ginevra as a trait characteristic of their being Corsican, but at times, particularly in the case of the daughter, their fierce conviction comes across as more robotic than passionate.
Perhaps the book's greatest sin is its squandering of the blood feud as a plot element. If you're going to introduce the extraordinary Corsican custom of vendetta into a novel, it should be made an integral part of the story. Here Balzac merely uses it as the source of a disagreement between father and daughter, an end he could have found 99 other ways to accomplish. While the vendetta provides the title for the book, in the story it merely feels like an afterthought.
Nevertheless, with his prodigious talents, it's almost impossible for Balzac to write a bad story, and this novella is certainly not bad. His knack for crafting dramatic scenes and memorable characters is amply displayed here. Fans of the master's work can certainly find much to appreciate in Vendetta, but for casual readers of Balzac it's not a must-read by any means.
A Corsican man arrives in Paris with his wife and child, hoping for help from an old friend. A guard stops him at the door. What? Could Napoleon, First Consul of the Republic, have forgotten that he is Corsican? The man stands his ground and miraculously gains an audience. Napoleon clears the room for a private talk with his compatriot. The man's sons were killed, but he gave as good as he got and he killed the killer's family in revenge, even leaving a boy for dead.
Napoleon shakes his head and speaks sternly. "La Vendetta. Corsica must adapt to Law and to Order and forego the old ways." But facing his friend, he relents and bestows on him a title and some revenue.
The girl grows up proud and talented, the jewel of her father's eyes. She learns to paint and becomes a technically accomplished artist. Napoleon falls and following the battle at Waterloo, one of the Emperor's young officer takes refuge at her teacher's home. He is penniless, Corsican, and he stood by the Emperor until the very end. The daughter and the soldier fall in love and her heart does what every young woman's heart must do it turns from the father to the husband.
Her father flies into a rage! What does she want with a husband? Does he not have a fortune for her to inherit? But he relents. She is after all as Corsican as he is. He will meet her fiancée.
When the young man arrives he fears the father's wrath as any young Corsican might at the prospect of asking the father for the daughter's hand. The father greets him and notices his good looks. In fact, he recognizes them. He is the son of his sworn enemy whom he had left for dead as an infant. Alive! But the name? Adopted! This marriage cannot be! But the daughter's heart is already engaged.
They marry. Penniless but industrious they at first get by. How will the Vendetta play itself out?
Vincent Poirier, Quebec City
This book is well written and keeps up the adrenaline and attention while
you are reading it. I am not much of a fiction reader, but if I could find
more great books like this I would be a convert.
It is seldom that I give a 4 or 5 star rating however this book certainly deserves the 4 star. It is well written, the charatars are well devleoped and the author pulls you into the book and plot. It is the type of book that once you are into it that you just don't want to put it down. You just have to see what will happen next and how it evolves. The descriptive areas are somewhat long and certainly express the character's feelings of betrayal at the hands of his wife. It can be a little harsh and long in going into his feelings but if one remembers that this is the character's feelings then you can understand it and take it with a grain of salt. I would classify it as a drama, not a mystery as you can easily surmize where the basic plot is going you just don't know how and there are some neat little twists. I reccommend this book.
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