Adolphe

Benjamin Constant

Publié par Librio, le 11 août 2001

93 pages

Résumé

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of emotion that only serves to repel her younger lover - yet he cannot bring himself to leave her and his procrastination can only bring tragedy. Partly inspired by Constant's own stormy affair with Madame de Staël, Adolphe (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.

Adolphe ; Cécile ; Lettre sur Julie ; De Mme de Staël ; Le Cahier rouge

Écrits Politiques (French Edition)

شور آزادی

La liberté de la pensée

Oeuvres

Portraits et Souvenirs contemporains, suivi d'une lettre de Jefferson, président des États-Unis, à Madame de Stael - Paris ou le Livre des cent-et-un

Adolphe: avec une etude sur le caractere liberal d'Adolphe par Benoit Malbranque

De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes

Critiques