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Correspondance générale 1810–1812

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This critical edition presents the work of Benjamin Constant, author, religious historian and political thinker, in all its uniqueness and diversity. It includes the author’s voluminous corresponde...
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  • 17 September 2010
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This volume contains 305 letters covering three years of Constant’s life in which he finally experienced a happy marriage. However, these years were overshadowed by Germaine de Staël’s misfortune, by his enormous gambling losses and also by a dispute with his father which was to last until his father’s death. Constant left France and traveled to Switzerland and Germany, but he could not find the happiness he had hoped for ‑ not even in the seclusion of German libraries.

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Price: $340.00
Pages: 664
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 17 September 2010
ISBN: 9783110233803
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LCO011000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Paul Delbouille, Robert Leroy und Eckart Pastor, Universität Lüttich, Belgien; Martine Willems, Universität Saint-Louis, Brüssel, Belgien; Kurt Kloocke, Universität Tübingen.