Christ in Flanders

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Christ in Flanders is by Honoré de Balzac. The dedication is to "Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders" and speaks of "this quaint legend of old Flanders". The text says "At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other".

The narrator calls the tale "a myth, the blossom of imaginative fancy; an allegory that the wise may interpret to suit themselves". A passage says "Above all these human lives stood a strong man, the skipper" and that he was "trusting in himself rather than in Providence". A passage says "the shriveled woman raised her bony form, flung off her rags, and grew tall and radiant, smiling as she broke forth from the dark chrysalid sheath".

About the author

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.