by Benjamin Constant · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081309494
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«Adolphe» is Benjamin Constant's novel of analysis published by Garnier Flammarion in paperback, 206 pages, in French.
A privileged and jaded young man conquers Ellénore, an older woman, but the relationship turns tortuous: he neither manages to love her nor decides to leave her, while his circle demands he abandon her for his career. His indecision precipitates a tragic outcome. It is a psychological portrait, inspired in part by Constant's relationship with Madame de Staël.
French edition with dossier, published in 2013 by Garnier Flammarion; includes a presentation by Jean-Marie Roulin and an interview with Belinda Cannone. Original work from 1816.
For readers of nineteenth-century French classics and Romanticism, particularly those interested in the psychological novel.
Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães was a Brazilian military officer and political thinker. Primarily a positivist, influenced heavily by Auguste Comte, he was the founder of the positivist movement in Brazil, and later this led to his republican views. He left the Brazilian Positivist Society because of internal disagreements, but remained an ardent pupil of Comte until the end of his life.
