Adolphe (riverrun Editions)
- ISBN-10
- 1529405548
- ISBN-13
- 9781529405545
- Category
- Commitment (Psychology)
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-07
- Author
- Benjamin Constant
Description
Published simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fatal dance of self-destruction. An early example of autofiction, Constant's aim was to create an exemplary fiction of high moral purpose which would also function as an act of intimate self-vindication and revenge on his former lover, the formidable Madame de Stael. The result is a tautly-strung Racinian tragedy in prose.
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