Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Adolphe
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719001420
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 132
Book Description
Adolphe enjoys all the advantages of a noble birth and an intellectual ability, yet he is haunted by the meaninglessness of life. Thus, he merely seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in the language of love, fallsfor her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of an illicit love that is destructive to his public career. Unable to commit himself fully to Ellenore, and yet unwilling to face the pain he would cause by leaving her, Adolphe finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation.Written in a clear and thoughtful style, Adolphe (1816) reveals Constant's own experiences in love, while reflecting his anxieties for the possibility of any authentic commitment to someone other than ourselves, whether emotional or political, in a disenchanted world.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719001420
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 132
Book Description
Adolphe enjoys all the advantages of a noble birth and an intellectual ability, yet he is haunted by the meaninglessness of life. Thus, he merely seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in the language of love, fallsfor her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of an illicit love that is destructive to his public career. Unable to commit himself fully to Ellenore, and yet unwilling to face the pain he would cause by leaving her, Adolphe finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation.Written in a clear and thoughtful style, Adolphe (1816) reveals Constant's own experiences in love, while reflecting his anxieties for the possibility of any authentic commitment to someone other than ourselves, whether emotional or political, in a disenchanted world.
Adolphe and The Red Note-book
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe"
Author: Ian W. Alexander
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Etat des travaux récents.
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Etat des travaux récents.
Adolphe and the Red Notebook
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040281648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040281648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.
Adolphe by Benjamin Constant (Book Analysis)
Author: Bright Summaries
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782806288172
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782806288172
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Benjamin Constant
Author: Dennis Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Strangers
Author: Anita Brookner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307477584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow. To avoid having to turn down her Christmas invitation, Paul sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing woman in the midst of a divorce. Upon his return to England, a former girlfriend, Sarah, reenters Paul’s world and these two women spark a transformation in Paul, culminating in a shocking decision.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307477584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow. To avoid having to turn down her Christmas invitation, Paul sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing woman in the midst of a divorce. Upon his return to England, a former girlfriend, Sarah, reenters Paul’s world and these two women spark a transformation in Paul, culminating in a shocking decision.
Red Notebook
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714546321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A spirited look at life and Romantic sensibilities on the eve of the nineteenth century, this narrative is a priceless document and a fine example of early autobiographical writing.
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714546321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A spirited look at life and Romantic sensibilities on the eve of the nineteenth century, this narrative is a priceless document and a fine example of early autobiographical writing.
Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781433090578
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781433090578
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe"
Author: Ian Walsh Alexander
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
ISBN: 9780713157192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Etat des travaux récents.
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
ISBN: 9780713157192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Etat des travaux récents.