"Facino Cane" by Honore de Balzac is a thought-provoking and haunting novella that explores the destructive power of revenge and the corruption of absolute power.

The story revolves around a young Italian nobleman named Facino Cane who seeks revenge against the powerful Count Giraldi, who had destroy

A romantic tale with an abrupt ending.

A gothic tale complete with romance, murders, a dungeon, a miraculous escape, a cavern full of treasure and four or five betrayals. The narrator, an observer of Parisians, like Balzac himself, meets a blind musician at a wedding who spins the tale of his fall - he is obsessed by gold, can smell it a

3.5 stars. A story that is more about Balzac’s ability to tell stories than the story itself. The most memorable aspect of Facino is his ambiguity: is he telling the truth, or is he merely a senile old man? And what of the ending? (spoiler!) Did the narrator really believe the story, or was he merel

A thoroughly charming fifteen page short story, showing Balzac could have, had he wished to do so, mastered the melodramatic adventures of Dumas and Hugo and turned away from his rather trenchant and penetrating social criticism so characteristic of his view of French society in the early nineteenth

Conto publicado em 1836, figura em Estudos de Costumes - Cenas da Vida Parisiense.
Narrado em primeira pessoa por alguém anônimo que conta ter conhecido numa festa de casamento, Facino Cane, um músico cego e idoso proveniente de Veneza, membro da nobreza que foi condenado à masmorras por ter assassin