Adolphe

Réf. 56675

€ 100.00

CONSTANT (Benjamin) illustrated by Hermine DAVID

Paris - Fernand Hazan - 1948.

Format : In-8.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Paperback.
Collation : 125 pp.

In cardboard case and folder, printed soft cover filled. Case and shirt back a little faded. Nice fresh paper. Uncut copy. Charming dry-tipped edition by Hermine DAVID.

"Adolphe tells of the inexorable breakdown of a love relationship. After seducing Ellénore out of vanity rather than love, Adolphe is unable to break up or love. His indecision, between sincerity and bad faith, as well as a kind of sadism mixed with compassion, will precipitate the race to the abyss of this fatal couple. Having inadvertently escaped Constant's pen to entertain himself with his sentimental setbacks with Charlotte de Hardenberg and Madame de Staël (this is a certain conception of the genesis of the text), Adolphe is a masterpiece of the analytical novel: a "fairly true story of the misery of the human heart".

LIMITED PRINTING of 375 numbered copies on swamp vellum. This is one of 350 copies justified in Arabic numerals.

In good condition.