Adolphe - Couverture souple

Constant, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140441344 ISBN 13 : 9780140441345

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1980

Synopsis

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of emotion that only serves to repel her younger lover - yet he cannot bring himself to leave her and his procrastination can only bring tragedy. Partly inspired by Constant's own stormy affair with Madame de Staël, Adolphe (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.

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Quatrième de couverture

« J'ai été mécontent, malheureux, injuste ; peut-être, en luttant avec trop de violence contre une imagination rebelle, avez-vous donné de la force à des velléités passagères que je méprise aujourd'hui ; mais pouvez-vous douter de mon affection profonde ? Nos dores ne sont-elles pas enchaînées l'une à l'autre par mille liens que rien ne peut rompre ? Tout le passé ne nous est-il pas commun ? Pouvons-nous jeter un regard sur les trois années qui viennent de finir, sans nous retracer des impressions que nous avons partagées, des plaisirs que nous avons goûtés, des peines que nous avons supportées ensemble Ellénore, commençons en ce jour une nouvelle époque, rappelons les heures du bonheur et de l'amour. »

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140441344
• ISBN 13: 9780140441345
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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