George Sand by Elizabeth Harlan
George Sand was the most famous, and the most scandalous, woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific: she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources, much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers, Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life. Why was Sand's relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women's liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand's identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand's mother and grandmother, and Sand's own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own.
George Sand is an undeniably impressive achievementWritten in a dynamic style, and deeply researched, this book is not only a biography of a fascinating literary and historical figure but also a compelling work of cultural history. Annie Cohen-Solal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and University of Caen. Elizabeth Harlan brings to bright life one of the greatest figures who ever wrote her way into history - in all her genius, passion, and flaws. George Sand is irresistible. Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University
Elizabeth Harlan is the author of two novels, Footfalls and Watershed. She lives in Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300104172 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300104170 |
| Title | George Sand |
| Author | Elizabeth Harlan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2004-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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