Adolphe and the Red Notebook

Adolphe and the Red Notebook
Title Adolphe and the Red Notebook PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Constant
Publisher Taylor & Francis
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.

Adolphe and The Red Notebook

Adolphe and The Red Notebook
Title Adolphe and The Red Notebook PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Constant
Publisher New York : New American Library
Pages 164
Release 1959
Genre Authors, French
ISBN

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Red Notebook

Red Notebook
Title Red Notebook PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Constant
Publisher Alma Books
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.

Constant: Political Writings

Constant: Political Writings
Title Constant: Political Writings PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Constant
Publisher Cambridge University Press
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.

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L
Title Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L PDF eBook
Author O. Classe
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 930
Release 2000
Genre Authors
ISBN 9781884964367

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The Current of Romantic Passion

The Current of Romantic Passion
Title The Current of Romantic Passion PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Cane Robinson
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
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

A Passion for Democracy

A Passion for Democracy
Title A Passion for Democracy PDF eBook
Author Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher Algora Publishing
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."