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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourgthe classic French novel of infidelity Inspired by its authors scandalous real-life affair with the trouser-wearing feminist novelist George Sand, The Confession of a Child of the Century is a searingly honest, passionate account of a young mans rite of passage. Capturing the failed idealism of the Romantic era, it is published here in the first new English translation in over a century.
Synopsis
Recently made into a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pete Doherty and Lily Cole, this French novel of love and betrayal is now available in a new English translation for the first time in over a hundred years.
Inspired by his scandalous real-life affair with the flamboyant woman who called herself George Sand, Alfred de Musset's Confession is a searingly honest, passionate account of a young man's rite of passage. It tells the story of Octave, desperate to be more than an 'average man', who searches for happiness first as a debauched libertine, until his mistress Elise is unfaithful, and then in an austere life in the countryside, where he falls in love with the selfless Brigitte. But as he becomes consumed by insane jealousy and convinced that Brigitte will betray him, Octave brings about his own destruction. A vivid, opulent portrayal of obsession and despair, this is also a philosophical portrait of a man and his times, expressing the failed idealism of the Romantic generation of the early nineteenth century.
David Coward's vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing de Musset's affair with Sand and his work's place in the confessional genre. This edition contains a chronology, notes and further reading.
Synopsis
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourgthe classic French novel of infidelity Inspired by its authors scandalous real-life affair with the trouser-wearing feminist novelist George Sand, The Confession of a Child of the Century is a searingly honest, passionate account of a young mans rite of passage. Capturing the failed idealism of the Romantic era, it is published here in the first new English translation in over a century.
About the Author
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist and, from 1833 to 1835, the lover of the novelist George Sand. David Coward is a translator from French, whose translations include works by authors such as Alexandre Dumas,���Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and the Marquis de Sade. David Coward is a translator from French, whose translations include works by authors such as Alexandre Dumas,���Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and the Marquis de Sade. David Coward is a translator from French, whose translations include works by authors such as Alexandre Dumas,���Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and the Marquis de Sade.