Adolphe (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Constant, Benjamin

 
9780140441345: Adolphe (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140441344 ISBN 13: 9780140441345
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1980

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1980
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140441344
ISBN 13 
9780140441345
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
124
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