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Streszczenie książki Człowiek ze złamanym uchem
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A colonel dried out in 1813 wakes in 1859 in the Renaults' home, hungry and ready to conquer the world.
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Człowiek ze złamanym uchem — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 3 h 50 min3 h 5 min fast, 4 h 35 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 54 800
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1862by Edmond About
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Człowiek ze złamanym uchem in short
The novel follows a soldier of Napoleon who is frozen in 1813, dried out by a kindly German scholar, and sold as a curiosity in Berlin in 1859. Léon Renault buys him by mistake and finds that his fiancée Clémentine cannot stop thinking of the sleeper. The colonel is revived with steam and warm baths, and he wakes shouting for his Emperor.
What Człowiek ze złamanym uchem is about
A young engineer comes home from Russia with a fortune, a bride waiting for him, and a souvenir he bought by mistake in Berlin. The souvenir is a dried human body lying in three boxes. On the first night his fiancée kneels beside it and weeps. By August the body is walking, eating, shouting, and claiming her hand.
The Man with the Broken Ear is a comic novel by Edmond About, finished in 1861. He asks a bold question. What if a man could be paused for decades and woken in a changed world? The answer is a funny tale of one of Napoleon's soldiers meeting the Paris of Napoleon's nephew.
Dla kogo. Readers who enjoy comic fantasy, early science fiction, and Napoleonic lore will love this tale. It suits those drawn to a hero facing a changed world and lively French satire of officials and money-grabbers.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A hero's welcome opens with a kiss gone wrong
On May 18, 1859, Mr. Renault, a retired physics teacher in Fontainebleau, mails a letter to his son Léon in Berlin. It says a new laboratory waits at home and a certain Clémentine is pining for him. Léon has spent three years in the Ural copper mines to earn a fortune worthy of her. A month later he steps off the train into his parents' arms.
The homecoming is warm and comic. Old Gothon, the family servant, weeps on the doorstep, and Mrs. Renault hurries her son to the table. Then Clémentine arrives with her stern aunt. Léon and his fiancée rush to kiss, each aims for the wrong cheek, and both stare at the carpet.
Clémentine is a small, lovely Creole, level-headed, with money of her own. The opening builds a world of order, money, and good manners that the hero will soon smash. A tidy home is the perfect stage for a story about disorder.
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A souvenir from Berlin carries a bold scientific dream
After dinner the family opens Léon's trunks by lamplight in the laboratory.
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A young woman grieves for a stranger in a box
Léon opens the walnut box inside its lead coffin, and the company gathers around the colonel of the 23rd Line.
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A dying scholar leaves his fortune to a sleeper
The papers from Berlin arrive as Meiser's own will, dated January 20, 1824.
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A microscope settles the question and a town takes sides
Dr. Martout decides to test whether the colonel's tissues are still sound.
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A bath of steam wakes a soldier into a new age
On August 15 Nibor arrives with his committee and refuses Mr. Renault's electric batteries.
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The revived colonel takes over the house, the girl, and the town
At dinner Fougas eats like a hero of Homer and gets drunk on dessert.
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Paris, an emperor, and a million in Danzig
In Paris Fougas finds that his old hotel has become part of the Louvre.
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A man out of his time shows how the world has changed
The comedy's main engine is the gap between 1813 and 1859.
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A mocking narrator and a patchwork of documents carry the tale
The story is told by a narrator who steps forward without shame.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Colonel Pierre-Victor Fougas A brave, vain, and kindhearted officer of Napoleon who wakes after forty-six years and wants his rank, his glory, and the girl who looks like his old love.
- Léon Renault A gentle young engineer who comes home rich from Russia, buys a mummy by mistake, and then has to defend his engagement.
- Clémentine Sambucco A lovely, sensible young Creole who is engaged to Léon yet feels a strange, strong duty toward the sleeping colonel.
- Karl Nibor A cheerful Paris scholar and master of the microscope who proves the colonel is alive and brings him back.
- Mr. Renault Léon's father, a retired physics teacher who loves science and puts his laboratory at the service of the experiment.
- Nicolas Meiser A rich and miserly landowner of Danzig who kept Fougas's inheritance and now fears the colonel's return.
How it ends (spoiler)
Fougas learns that Clémentine is his own granddaughter, so he blesses her marriage to Léon and gives her a million. At the wedding feast a ministry letter places him on the reserve list, because his birth certificate makes him seventy years old. The next morning a telegram from his friend Leblanc promises him a general's rank, but Léon finds him dead in his hotel bed, thirty-one days after waking. He is buried in the plot Léon bought, and his will leaves money to the 23rd Line.
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Pytania o Człowiek ze złamanym uchem
What is The Man with the Broken Ear about?
It tells of a French colonel from Napoleon's army who is dried out by a scientist in 1813 and brought back to life in 1859. He then tries to win a girl, regain his rank, and understand a changed world.
Who is Colonel Fougas?
Pierre-Victor Fougas is a proud, loud, tender-hearted officer of the 23rd Line Regiment. Napoleon sends him on a mission to Danzig in 1813, and he is captured on the way and sentenced as a spy.
Is the revival of the colonel based on real science?
The book builds on real experiments in which tiny animals such as rotifers dry out and come back to life when wet. The revival of a whole man is imagined by the author for the story.
Why is the book called The Man with the Broken Ear?
Léon accidentally tears a piece from the colonel's ear while showing him off. That scrap is sent to a scientist, who proves the body is alive, and the torn ear becomes a mark of the hero.
Is The Man with the Broken Ear easy to read?
Yes is not needed here: the chapters are short and lively, the narrator jokes with the reader, and scenes of dinners, duels, and chases keep the story moving. The science is explained in plain images such as a watch.
Zacytuj to wydanie
About, Edmond. The Man with the Broken Ear. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-with-the-broken-ear.
About, E. (2026). The man with the broken ear. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-with-the-broken-ear (Original work published 1862)
About, Edmond. The Man with the Broken Ear. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-with-the-broken-ear.
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