by Benjamin Constant · Grands Écrivains · tapa dura · ISBN 9782850185595
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«Adolphe» is the psychological novel by Benjamin Constant, published by Grands Écrivains in hardback (187 pages, in French).
Adolphe, a jaded young man, courts Ellénore, an older, passionate woman. When she reciprocates, the relationship becomes tortuous: he no longer loves her, but cannot bring himself to leave her. Inspired by Constant's relationship with Madame de Staël, it is a psychological analysis of the contradictions of love and social conventions.
Work originally published in 1816; this 1985 edition belongs to the Grands Écrivains collection, selected by the Académie Goncourt.
A read for those who enjoy nineteenth-century French classics and psychological analyses of romantic relationships.
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.
