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Synopsis
Mauprat by George Sand is a classic of French literature, available here in an authoritative English translation.
The story is directly inspired by several literary genres, among them gothic fiction, the romances of the Middle Ages and the classic fairy tale. This multi-genre adoption was the signature style of the author, appearing in the majority of her longer form fictional works.
Deferring to the virtues Sand sees in women, we see here the tale of a female protagonist whose job it is to settle a former hero - Bernard Mauprat - into ordinary life and society. In doing so she becomes a heroine herself, bravely confronting the hero's negative qualities with a diligence all her own.
The tale is narrated by an older Mauprat who reminisces about his younger days prior to the French revolution and subsequent wars - thus the book also carries a notable element of the coming of age story. For her part, George Sand was curious about exploring the ideas of social equality and what that meant for her gender. As such, Mauprat features characters such as the working class Patience who holds her own visionary ideals of society.
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About the Author
George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, L?lia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men s clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.
Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1536905801
- ISBN 13 9781536905809
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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