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Title: Adolphe
Publisher: FLAMMARION
Publication Date: 2013
Language: French
ISBN 10: 2081309491
ISBN 13: 9782081309494
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good

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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 Sta�l, 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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Unique roman achev� de Benjamin Constant, Adolphe (1816) raconte l'inexorable d�composition d'une relation amoureuse. Vouloir ce qui �chappe, �chapper � ce qui se donne ; d�sirer la liaison, mais se rebeller contre le lien : telle est l'histoire d'Adolphe qui, somm� de quitter Ell�nore au nom de la carri�re � laquelle on le destine, ne parvient pas plus � rompre qu'� aimer. Les intermittences de ce coeur ind�cis - qui oscille entre sinc�rit� et mauvaise foi, aveuglement et lucidit�, compassion et sadisme - pr�cipiteront la catastrophe finale. Mais, dans cette trag�die de l'impuissance, l'amante d�laiss�e ne sera pas la seule victime. Car Adolphe est aussi le r�cit d'une impossible r�volte : celle d'un homme broy� par la soci�t�. Chef-d'oeuvre du roman d'analyse selon certains, t�moignage sur le bouleversement des vies sous le Directoire et l'Empire pour d'autres, ce roman est d'abord, comme le sugg�re Constant, une fable poignante sur notre condition, une �histoire vraie de la mis�re du coeur humain�.

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