by Alfred de Musset · Gallimard Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070364763
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«La Confession d'un enfant du siècle» is the autobiographical novel by Alfred de Musset, published by Gallimard in paperback (384 pages, in French).
The young narrator reviews his sentimental education in Restoration France, where his generation grew up after the Napoleonic wars and found a world in ruins. The novel blends confession and moral reflection to portray amorous disillusionment, youthful doubts, and the melancholy of an era without ideals.
This edition, volume 476 of the Folio Classique collection, includes a preface by Claude Roy and editing by Gérard Barrier; the novel was originally published in 1836.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and classics of Romanticism.
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.
