Family Dramas - Paul Bourget - Rel Maroquin Kauffmann 1/70 1900

"This work contains two long short stories, L'expiration and Le luxe des autres, followed by three other shorter ones under the title of Cœurs d'enfants. The psychology of the 1880s holds in a spirit of contradiction. A supreme paradox between a life physical and moral depravity, playful skepticism, and an – irrepressible – need for certainty.

• In this book, Paul Bourget, speaking of one of his characters whose dearest wish is to be a writer, nuanced during one of his portraits the image altogether too romantic or too naive of the artist .

At this point in the news, he announced Eugène Corbières' decision to pursue a career as a doctor: "What made me decide to take this path, it may seem strange to you, is the need for certainty My personal taste would have led me towards more abstract studies. I would have entered the Ecole Normale, to study metaphysics, if I had not read Kant and also Taine's Intelligence. has seemed that the object in the philosophical sciences is far too doubtful. My own mind has a hunger and thirst for something positive, indisputable."

State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight rubbing on the nerves
• minimal friction at the corners
• slightly insolated back

• Fresh Interior