The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete. Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664636546
Table of Contents
THE CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
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 VII. THE WISDOM OF SIRACH
CHAPTER VIII. THE SEARCH FOR HEALING
CHAPTER IX. BACCHUS, THE CONSOLER
CHAPTER III. AFRICAN HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER I. DEATH, THE INEVITABLE
CHAPTER II. THE BALM OF SOLITUDE
CHAPTER IV. RIPENING ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER VI. THE RUGGED PATH OF LOVE
CHAPTER VII. THE VENUSBERG AGAIN
CHAPTER I. SWEET ANTICIPATIONS
CHAPTER II. THE DEMON OF DOUBT
CHAPTER III. THE QUESTION OF SMITH
CHAPTER VI. SELF-SACRIFICE THE SOLUTION
ALFRED DE MUSSET
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