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       Alfred de Musset

      The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664636546

       ALFRED DE MUSSET

       THE CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY

       BOOK 1.

       PART I

       CHAPTER I. TO THE READER

       CHAPTER II. REFLECTIONS

       CHAPTER III. THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFESSIONS

       I have to explain how I was first taken with the malady of the age.

       CHAPTER IV. THE PATH OF DESPAIR

       CHAPTER V. A PHILOSOPHER’S ADVICE

       CHAPTER VI. MADAME LEVASSEUR

       CHAPTER VII. THE WISDOM OF SIRACH

       CHAPTER VIII. THE SEARCH FOR HEALING

       Yet I was unwilling to yield.

       CHAPTER IX. BACCHUS, THE CONSOLER

       PART II

       CHAPTER I. AT THE CROSSWAYS

       CHAPTER II. THE CHOSEN WAY

       CHAPTER III. AFRICAN HOSPITALITY

       CHAPTER IV. MARCO

       CHAPTER V. SATIETY

       BOOK 2.

       PART III

       CHAPTER I. DEATH, THE INEVITABLE

       CHAPTER II. THE BALM OF SOLITUDE

       CHAPTER III. BRIGITTE

       CHAPTER IV. RIPENING ACQUAINTANCE

       CHAPTER V. AN INTERVIEW

       CHAPTER VI. THE RUGGED PATH OF LOVE

       CHAPTER VII. THE VENUSBERG AGAIN

       PART IV

       CHAPTER I. THE THORNS OF LOVE

       CHAPTER II. UNCERTAINTY

       CHAPTER III. EXPLANATIONS

       CHAPTER IV. BRIGITTE’S LOSS

       CHAPTER V. A TORTURED SOUL

       BOOK 3.

       PART V

       CHAPTER I. SWEET ANTICIPATIONS

       CHAPTER II. THE DEMON OF DOUBT

       CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION OF SMITH

       CHAPTER IV. IN THE FURNACE

       CHAPTER V. TRUTH AT LAST

       CHAPTER VI. SELF-SACRIFICE THE SOLUTION

       Table of Contents

      A poet has no right to play fast and loose with his genius. It does not belong to him, it belongs to the Almighty; it belongs to the world and to a coming generation. At thirty De Musset was already an old man, seeking in artificial stimuli the youth that would not spring again. Coming from a literary family the zeal of his house had eaten him up; his passion had burned itself out and his heart with it. He had done his work; it mattered little to him or to literature whether the curtain fell on his life’s drama in 1841 or in 1857.

      Alfred de Musset, by virtue of his genial, ironical temperament, eminently clear brain, and undying achievements, belongs to the great poets of the ages. We to-day do not approve the timbre of his epoch: that impertinent, somewhat irritant mask, that redundant rhetoric, that occasional disdain for the metre. Yet he remains the greatest poete de l’amour, the most spontaneous, the most sincere, the most emotional singer of the tender passion that modern


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