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    <![CDATA[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 Stael, &quot;Adolphe&quot; (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creo que el 'Adolphe' me ha encontrado en el momento adecuado. Probablemente en cualquier otro momento diría lo mismo, porque es uno de esos libros que parece que han sido escritos para mí y sólo para mí. Me podrá encantar 'Lolita' y 'Eugene Oneguin', pero son libros como el 'Adolphe' que defin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8873443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 Stael, &quot;Adolphe&quot; (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[C'est brillant, une véritable révélation ; renversant. De ceux qui arrivent à saisir ce quelque chose à pleins mots. A en regretter que Constant ait écrit si peu...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.'  Enjoying all the advantages of noble birth and intellectual ability, but haunted by a sense of the meaninglessness of life, Adolphe seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and more vulnerable Ellenore.  Unaware of the danger 'of appropriating the language of love, and of fostering in yourself or others emotions of the heart that are transitory', Adolphe unexpectedly falls in love, only to chafe under the burden of an illicit relationship that blocks his public career.  Unable to commit himself fully to Ellenore, and yet unwilling to face the pain he would cause by leaving her, Adolphe finds himself caught up in a situation that cannot be remedied, and is resolved only with disastrous results.  Written in a lucidly analytic yet discreetly emotional style, Adolphe (1816) distills the lessons of Constant's own experiences in love, but it also reflects his anxieties about the prospects for any kind of authentic commitment, political or religious as well as emotional, in a disenchanted world.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quick, little read that is by turns comedic and a horrible investigation of the tricks of love.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 Stael, &quot;Adolphe&quot; (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book: totally haunting. Hyper self-analysis only denies our experience of emotions + (once again) the bitch of language!!! uuuuuhhhh... oh man]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 StaA'l, &quot;Adolphe&quot; (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[clearly i am fond of books where nice fairly intelligent people fuck up their lives.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i was only so interested in this young frenchman's affairs.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 StaA'l, &quot;Adolphe&quot; (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quintessential French &quot;relationship&quot; story.]]></body>
    
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