Literary Biography - Europe - General & Miscellaneous, France - Political Biography, French Literary Biography, Intellectuals - Biography
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Overview
'For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.'Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Book Details
Published
July 14, 1993
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Pages
352
ISBN
9780203191637