The second novel by the rationalist anti-fascist writer Julien Benda, "that of a passion for an older woman, one finds in Les Amorandes a novelistic transposition of this first romantic passion of the author,
Very clearly, Benda proposes in Les Amorandes his conception of the Oedipal conflict. The writing, here again, is stripped-down, a touch precious at times, and the analysis of feelings, often accurate"
