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Who wrote The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete?

"The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete" was written by Alfred de Musset and published in 1836. French Romantic poet and dramatist known for his emotional depth and exploration of love and disillusionment.

The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

1836

Alfred de Musset

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The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

Alfred de Musset

1836

Alfred de Musset turned his devastating real-life affair with George Sand into this raw, unguarded portrait of a young man tearing himself apart. Published in 1836, it follows Octave through two ruinous love affairs: first as a debauched libertine whose mistress Elise betrays him, then as a country recluse who falls for the pure Brigitte, only to destroy everything through paranoid jealousy. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the novel captures an entire generation hollowed out by war and disillusionment, men who wanted to feel something grand and ended up feeling nothing at all. Musset writes with startling honesty about masculine fragility, the hunger for transcendence, and how the very intensity that makes us capable of love also makes us capable of monstrous self-destruction. This is Romanticism's darkest mirror: not the dreamy knights and doomed poets of popular imagination, but the grinding psychological horror of wanting everything and guaranteed to ruin it.