Adolphe (riverrun editions)

''One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.''From Richard Sieburth''s preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is ...

''One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.''From Richard Sieburth''s preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fatal dance of self-destruction. In what is one of the earliest examples of autofiction, from a period when all creative endeavour was permeated by autobiography. Constant''s aim was to create an exemplary fiction of high moral purpose which would also function as an act of intimate self-vindica