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The Confession of a Child of the Century (Paperback)
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The Confession of a Child of the Century (Paperback)
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Loot Price R325
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You Save R75 (19%)
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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.
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