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Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2024-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1040281648 |
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In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.
Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : New York : New American Library |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : Alma Books |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0714546321 |
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A spirited look at life and Romantic sensibilities on the eve of the nineteenth century, this narrative is a priceless document and a fine example of early autobiographical writing.
Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : Signet Classics |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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This charming story paints the literary life of Paris in the nineteenth century. Sylvestre Bonnard, a retiring philologist and bachelor, upon finding the daughter of his long ago love, resolves to provide for her and supply her with a dowry. However, she already has a guardian. After a series of incidents, and learning that she is being badly treated, Bonnard is driven to abduct her. He escapes prosecution and eventually is appointed her guardian. When Jeanne, his ward, marries, he sells his treasured library to secure her dowry, guiltily withholding a few volumes, and retires to the country. Critics have split over just what is the crime referred to in the title. Is it the crime of abduction of which Bonnard is guilty, or the crime of retaining a few beloved books from auction, or is his rescue of Jeanne from mistreatment a poignant irony, making his crime one of benevolence in an inherently malignant social order? It is the reader's call.
Author | : Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521316323 |
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This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Author | : O. Classe |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9781884964367 |
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Author | : Benjamin de Constant de Rebecque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeffrey Cane Robinson |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299129644 |
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Deftly probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty," Robinson shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. Is the reader's experience of beauty in art an escape from troubling reality? Or does desire for beauty spur social criticism and reform? Does the representation of erotic passion, as a sign of social critique, exist to be transcended for disinterested spirituality? Or is such passion the very site of the struggle for individual and class rights? Robinson explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romanticism's radical sentiments and reformist politics. Tracing the intertwining of desire and disturbance, of eros and subversion, his meditations encompass poems, novels, diaries; key terms (such as Rousseau's "sentiment of existence"); writers' characteristic forms of expression or habits of mind (Wordsworth's "or"-grammar); figures in literary works (Goethe's Werther, Byron's Lambro); problems of genre (the relationship of the Romantic poem and the Romantic essay, the problem of closure, the nature of a "scene"); and larger political questions (feminism in Romantic literature, erotic passion and representations of radicalism). Evoking the original meaning of "essay" as experiment, Robinson has essayed a topography of the Romantic landscape. "This book is daring and it is brilliant. I also think it is right."--James R. Kincaid, University of Southern California
Author | : Tzvetan Todorov |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1892941139 |
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The French Revolution rang the death knell not only for a form of society, but also for a way of feeling and of living; and it is still not clear as yet what did we gain from the changes. Benjamin Constant was one of the first to draw up this dark diagnosis. "We no longer know how to love, neither to believe, nor to want. As a result, Heaven no longer offers hope, the earth dignity, the heart refuge." But is it enough to deplore it? Constant does not think so, and having become the first French thinker of democracy, he undertakes to seek remedies to the problem: a political framework that guarantees the dignity of the individual without dissolving the social bond; a religion stripped of its oppressive forms; a love finding the place which is due to values, higher than "all the thrones of the earth."