A young man in love walks with his companion Pauline along the rocky shore near Le Croisic, full of the grand ambitions of his twenties. On a crag above the sea they come upon a ruined giant of a fisherman who has sat there alone for years, and a guide tells them the dreadful family story behind his silent vigil.
A short, powerful tale from the Comédie humaine, one of Balzac’s starkest studies of guilt and justice. Download the free EPUB.