The Confession of a Child of the Century
Autor Alfred de Musseten Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2013
Inspired by his scandalous real-life affair with the flamboyant woman who called herself George Sand, Alfred de Musset'sConfessionis a searingly honest, passionate account of a young man's rite of passage. It tells the story of Octave, desperate to be more than an 'average man', who searches for happiness first as a debauched libertine, until his mistress Elise is unfaithful, and then in an austere life in the countryside, where he falls in love with the selfless Brigitte. But as he becomes consumed by insane jealousy and convinced that Brigitte will betray him, Octave brings about his own destruction. A vivid, opulent portrayal of obsession and despair, this is also a philosophical portrait of a man and his times, expressing the failed idealism of the Romantic generation of the early nineteenth century.
David Coward's vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing de Musset's affair with Sand and his work's place in the confessional genre. This edition contains a chronology, notes and further reading.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141391854
ISBN-10: 0141391855
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141391855
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Alfred
de
Musset
was
born
in
1810
in
Paris.
He
attempted
careers
in
medicine,
law
and
drawing
before
publishing
his
first
collection
of
poems,Contes
d'Espagne
et
d'Italie(1829).
He
subsequently
wrote
numerous
plays,
and
the
erotic
novelGamiani,
or
Two
Nights
of
Excess(1833)
is
sometimes
attributed
to
him.
From
1833
to
1835,
he
had
an
affair
with
the
novelist
George
Sand,
which
became
the
basis
for
his
most
famous
novelLa
Confession
d'un
Enfant
du
Siècle(1836).Sand
herself
also
fictionalized
the
affair
in
her
novelElle
et
lui.
Musset
died
in
1857
and
was
buried
in
Père
Lachaise
Cemetery
in
Paris.
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds. He won a Scott-Moncrieff prize for his edition of Albert Cohen'sBelle du Seigneur, and has also translated Molière for Penguin Classics.
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds. He won a Scott-Moncrieff prize for his edition of Albert Cohen'sBelle du Seigneur, and has also translated Molière for Penguin Classics.
Recenzii
Confession
of
a
Child
of
the
Centuryis
not
only
a
searingly
honest
self-portrait
but
a
portrait
of
a
whole
generation...Musset's
self-lashing
memoir
is
a
defence
of
human
and
spiritual
values
to
which
he
could
only
aspire.
He
never
reformed
and
never
again
wrote
anything
as
good