Adolphe (riverrun editions)
''One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.''
From Richard Sieburth''s preface to Adolphe
Published 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 ...
''One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.''
From Richard Sieburth''s preface to Adolphe
Published 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 ...
