Mademoiselle La Quintinie
1863
In this epistolary novel from the late George Sand, a young man named Émile writes to his father from the French countryside, confessing a crisis of the heart that is also a crisis of faith, duty, and selfhood. Lucie, the twenty-two-year-old granddaughter of General La Quintinie, has awakened something in him that defies all reason: an all-consuming, unrequited love that leaves him torn between desire and decorum. Through Émile's letters, we watch him grapple with the collision between what society demands of him and what his own heart insists upon. Sand uses the intimate form of correspondence to strip away pretense, revealing the philosophical underpinnings beneath romantic longing. This is a novel about the price of sincerity in a world that rewards performance, and about one man's struggle to reconcile the man he appears to be with the man he truly is.
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