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Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***.
Adolphe, novel by Benjamin Constant, published in 1816. Written in a lucid classical style, Adolphe describes in minute analytical detail a young man’s passion for a woman older than himself. A forerunner of the modern psychological novel, it is a thinly disguised account of the end of Constant’s.
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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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First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt who’s still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore, a fictionalized version of Madame de Stael.
Oct 30, 1980 · 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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In Adolphe, Benjamin Constant develops three major themes: the role of society in creating the mores and morals by which a particular society lives and the power of that society in enforcing its...
Aug 31, 2010 · First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt who's still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks...
