Musset opens with a famous diagnosis of his generation, born during the wars of Napoleon and left with nothing to believe in. His narrator Octave, betrayed by his first mistress, sinks into debauchery, then falls in love with the gentle widow Brigitte Pierson, and discovers that his jealousy and cynicism can poison even the love that might save him.
A key novel of French Romanticism, drawn from Musset’s affair with George Sand. Download the free EPUB.