Adolphe and the Red Notebook

Download or read book Adolphe and the Red Notebook written by Benjamin Constant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.