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The book was interesting but with a title like “The Immoralist,” I expected a little more explicit sinning. Overall, the text is about the main character’s (Michel) awakening to the stifling and trivial reality of socially constructed boundaries. It follows his descent away from the norm, exploring the emotions he experiences and the social consequences he faces as he tries to discover how to find happiness in a social world he nor longer cares about and whose rules he no longer respects. Unfort
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Foppish Dandies of the gentry "Sweat it out" with the working-class slobs to gain insight.
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