MUJERES. “El Mayor ingenio del mundo”. This is the extraordinary Madame de Staël (1766-1817) by Benjamin Constant (1767-1830). The dithyramb is recoge Sainte-Beuve en Portraits of women (Acantilado), about the seminal book about them salonnièresthose French women and townspeople who, like Staël, call to their homes the most brilliant intellectuals and artists of today.
Constant was one of the stars of the Salón de Staël and they were occasional and casual lovers between 1795 and 1810. Like probably hija, Albertine, they shared their twisted philias and political phobias. During their joint exile in Weimar, the friends of Goethe and Schiller also united in their devotion to German romanticism, which they in a way imported into France.
A great intellectual, writer and thinker, Staël theorized about Romanticism and practiced it in his novels. En Corinne (1807), for example, simultaneously with the writing of Constant de Adolfpublished cases later in the year.
Adolf this is the joy of the four texts of Constant collected by Periférica, with translation by Manuel Arranz, en Constant lovewhich also includes short novels Cecil (1810) Amélie and Germaine (1803), junto a Red notebook (1807), memorias de infancia y juventud.
In the first three, autobiographical, the late figure and shadow of Madame de Staël. Alejandro Dumas said of Constant “it I have nothing but inspiration from women; in literature they were their teachers; in politics they were their guides”.
‘Adolphe’ is the joy of four texts by the French writer and politician, which the Peripherals brought together in ‘Inconstant Loves’
AUTOFICTION. A writer of subjectivity and intimidation, a detailed archaeologist and connoisseur of the feelings and movements of the soul, Constant is right when he says, invent hoy pujante autofiction.
Adolf It is a classic study of passion and now he criticized romantic love a lot. in the first person, Adolf narrates the process of love and heartbreak of a young twenty-year-old girl who has an unbridled desire for the beautiful Ellénore, a three-year-old housemate with a neighbor and mother. She brings it back, increasing the obesity of the disease, and then it falls on her hands. A little later, Adolphe feels trapped by his wife’s demanding and demanding love and thinks he never wanted her.
This opens up a painful moment for both of them, and for various reasons, the decadence of their relationship leads to tragedy. Sufrir y, a la vez, hacer daño, follow your heart or reasonFeeling guilty, calibrating moral responsibility or defining the line between selfishness and selfishness are some of the themes of this issue. Benoît Jacquot edited Adolf in the cinema in 2002 with Isabelle Adjani.
LIBERAL. Benjamin Constant was born in Lausanne and his mother died in the month of giving birth. Following fate and the prescriptions of his military father, he resided in Belgium, Holland and England and established higher education in Bavaria and Edinburgh. Diarist, novelist and essayist, deudor de la Francia de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, Constant, hijo al cabo de la Ilustración, was a liberal of erratic behavior.
I supported the French Revolution and was prepared for its success. He hastened to Napoleon’s inauguration and approached him in his last days. Overall, he was more or less in agreement with Madame de Staël, very politically active. In four of his most important years, he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies and presided over the Council of State.
All my friends, sure, but I don’t want to make enemies: fought in duels. Just as Staël was twice married and married a thousand times, although the beautiful Juliette Récamier – immortalized by Jacques-Louis David – gave her calabashes. He was a supporter of Protestantism and spent four decades studying the religious phenomenon, publishing it in five volumes. On religion considered in its sources, its forms and its development (1824-1831). Cases nothing.
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