Adolphe and the Red Notebook

Constant, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0451500016 / ISBN 13: 9780451500014

Published by Signet/New American Library, 1959

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New York. 1959. August 1959. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500016. Translated From The French By Carl Wildman & Norman Cameron. Introduction By Harold Nicolson. The Very First Signet Classic. 160 pages. paperback. CD1. keywords: Signet Classic Europe France Literature Translated 18th Century World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 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 an older, possessive woman of the world. Benjamin Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. But to his familiars, it was clear that he himself was Adolphe. And in the intimate account of his strange liaison with EllEnore, he may well have been protesting against his inexorable bondage to his fiery, demanding mistress, Madame de Staël. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of the History of Religion. But posterity remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe. inventory #28975.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adolphe and the Red Notebook
• Publisher: Signet/New American Library
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451500016
• ISBN 13: 9780451500014
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good in Wrappers
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Benjamin Constant participated in the tumultous political life of France during the French Revolution and its aftermath. As an intimate of Germaine de Stael, he encountered international writers and thinkers influential in the early intellectual development of European Romanticism. Adolphe is a seminal Romantic novel, probably autobiographical, published in 1816. It analyses the interior states of the young protagonist who has fallen in love with an older woman. The Red Notebook is a posthumously published first-person autobiographical narrative of Constant's youth.

About the Author

Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was a French-Swiss po­litical writer and novelist. He combined a lively political career with a fertile literary output, while entertaining a series of liaisons with some of Frances most prominent women. 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 (1816).