Armance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544819914)

It concerns Octave de Malivert, a taciturn but brilliant young man barely out of the cole Polytechnique, who is attracted to Armance Zohiloff, who shares his feelings. The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided. Moreover, a series of clues suggest that Octave is impotent as a result of a severe accident. Octave is experiencing a deep inner turmoil; he himself illustrates the pain of the century's romantics. When the pair do eventually marry, the slanders of a rival convince Octave that Armance had married only out of selfishness. Octave leaves to fight in Greece, and dies there of sorrow.

Author: C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Stendhal
ISBN-10: 1544819919
ISBN-13: 9781544819914
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d