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According to one of Balzac's best connoisseurs, "A Dark Affair" is one of Balzac's best works.
The birth, childhood, upbringing and warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua: a satire on scholasticism, wars, monasticism and society, with grotesque humour, enormous eating/drinking and utopian ideals.
After many years, the protagonist returns to Paris and meets faces from his youth. He becomes aware of the past and decides that the book he is going to write will be "a big cemetery" and "all his past life". Thus ends Found Time.
The main character of the novel is a young man who falsely presents himself as Prince de H, and under this identity enters high society.
The novel is considered one of Kessel's most significant works, inspired by his experiences as a pilot during World War I.