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''La Vendetta'' (''The Vendetta'') is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the eighth of the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' (''Scenes of Private Life'') in La Comédie humaine. The novel was first published in 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée. In 1842 it appeared in the first Furne edition of ''La Comédie humaine''. ''La Vendetta'' was the fourth work in Volume 1, making it the fourth of the ''Scènes de la vie privée''.〔(Furne (1842-48) ). In Balzac's final arrangement of ''La Comédie humaine'', ''La Vendetta'' is the eighth of the ''Scènes da la vie privée''.〕 Balzac may have been inspired to write ''La Vendetta'' by Prosper Merimée, whose novel ''Mateo Falcone'', which was serialized by the ''Revue de Paris'' in 1829, also deals with the subject of Corsican vengeance and family honour. ==History== The manuscript of ''La Vendetta'', which is preserved in the Lovenjoul Collection of the Institut de France in Paris,〔(Collection Lovenjoul: Ms Lov. A 239. ),〕 is in three separate parts: ''L'Atelier'' (''The Artist's Workshop''), ''La Désobéissance'' (''The Act of Disobedience'') and ''Le Mariage'' (''The Marriage''). The novel was completed in Paris in January 1830, when Balzac was assisting the Duchesse d'Abrantès with her ''Mémoires de l'Empire''. The first edition of ''La Vendetta'' was published in April 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, appearing immediately after the preface in the first volume of a two-volume collection of Balzac's novels entitled ''Scènes de la vie privée'' – Balzac had not yet conceived of ''La Comédie humaine''. The work was divided into a prologue and four sections entitled: ''L'Atelier'', ''La Désobéissance'', ''Le Mariage'' and ''Le Châtiment'' (''The Punishment''). In May 1832 Mame-Delaunay brought out a second edition. By now the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' had grown to four volumes. ''La Vendetta'' retained its place immediately after the preface in the first volume. In July 1835 Mme Béchet published a third edition of ''La Vendetta'' as part of a twelve-volume collection of Balzac's works entitled ''Etude de Moeurs au XIXe siècle'' (''Studies of Manners in the 19th Century''). In this edition ''La Vendetta'' was no longer divided into sections and was placed at the end of the first volume. Balzac altered the marriage scene for this edition. In October 1839 Charpentier brought out a fourth edition of ''La Vendetta'' in a newly revised and corrected edition of the ''Scènes de la vie privée''. ''La Vendetta'' was the first work in the second volume of the series. In July 1842 a fifth edition of ''La Vendetta'' appeared in Furne's first publication of ''La Comédie humaine''. ''La Vendetta'' was the fourth work in the first volume (''Scènes de la vie privée'') of this five-volume series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Vendetta (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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