The secret self: a reading of Musset's Andre del Sarto.(play by Alfred de Musset )(Critical essay)

Nineteenth-Century French Studies | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Throughout his dramatic works, Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) famously stages the romantic ennui of the young men of his generation who, in the wake of the Revolution and after Waterloo, have nothing to believe in and no way to establish themselves in a society in transition. Lorenzo, Valentin and Fantasio are all, like the narrator of the 1836 Confession d'un enfant du siecle, "fils de l'Empire et petits-fils de la Revolution" (Prose 84); like nearly all of Musset's heroes, they are the orphaned heirs of two ruined regimes. Pierre Barberis (among many others) argues that the ...

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