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136 THE HUDSON REVIEW. displayed in the service of self-promotion. Sand's Histoire de ma vie rivals Rousseau's Confessions in professing emotional honesty while positing a clearly idealized protagonist. As Eisler says, in the Histoire de ma vie The shared pain of an unhappy couple becomes the martyrdom of the partner who owns the narrative.
Sep 4, 2000 · Jack’s highly readable and sympathetic biography of Sand paints a particularly compelling portrait of her early and middle years, including her adolescence, her ill-fated marriage, her quest...
Jan 2, 2005 · Sand’s precocious sense of self predated the rebirth of the bored, unhappy wife and mother Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, age 26, as “George Sand.”
Jun 8, 2015 · Love, Forgiveness, the Pride of the Protest, and What Makes a Compelling Heroine: Dostoyevsky’s Beautiful Eulogy for George Sand. On June 8, 1876, the great French novelist, memoirist, and playwright Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, took her last breath five weeks before her seventy-second birthday.
Mar 1, 2008 · George Sand's ‘middle years’ gripped James not only through her skills of improvisation but her ability to ‘act herself out’, to maintain her presence of mind in situations of ‘the last difficulty’.
October 1876 Issue. THE most important as well as perhaps the tritest thing to say about the distinguished writer whose death has just recalled every one’s attention to her is that she was...
Apr 12, 1991 · "Go home and paint something dead," Sand barks at him at one point, sounding the film's frequent note of playful sarcasm. Sand herself is described by the sly Marie as "incurably disgusted."
