Leone Leoni
Venice during Carnival: lights and laughter flood the canals while inside a young woman named Juliette wrestles with her own shadows. She is fragile, still reeling from past wounds, when Aleo arrives to offer her something that might be salvation or another form of imprisonment marriage. Their conversation reveals the delicate torture of loving someone who cannot yet love themselves back. George Sand constructs a Venice that feels less like a city and more like a mirror, reflecting the internal carnival of desires society demands be buried. This is a novel about the courage required to want what society forbids, and the particular loneliness of loving someone whose heart has been scarred by their own history. For readers who cherish the psychological depth of French Romanticism, who want to understand how 19th-century women navigated between passion and survival, this small gem offers both heartbreak and hard-won wisdom.
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“My mother declared that I was so sensible that they were not called upon to treat me like a child. The poor woman did not realize that she herself was much more of a child than I.””
— George Sand
“Often a heart capable of loving seeks in vain where to bestow its love, and comes forth pure of all earthly passions, perhaps to find a place in heaven. Ah! when God vouchsafes to us on earth that profound, passionate, ineffable sentiment, we must no longer desire or hope for paradise, Juliette; for paradise is the blending of two hearts in a kiss of love. And when we have found it here on earth, what matters it whether it be in the arms of a saint or of one of the damned?””
— George Sand
“can the title of Donna Bustamente make me any happier?” “It would put you out of reach of the insolent disdain of society.” “Society!” said Juliette; “you mean your friends. What is society? I have never known. I have passed through life and made the tour of the globe, but have never been able to discover what you call society.””
— George Sand
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