Muse

Author: (French) F. Lestringant, translated by Chen Xiaojing
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Musset was extraordinarily talented. I firmly believe this. His face, the one I always gazed upon, remained so beautiful, yet it always gave me the impression of a freshly plucked, beautiful flower that withered before evening.??Justus Olivier He is a pure, true poet of the Parnassian school, and his greatest misfortune lies in always remaining at the age of 15, which is not the age of stagnation for an immortal being.??Gobineau Musset never separated poetry from emotion. According to his view, music was composed for nocturnes, painting was created for portraits, and poetry was written to console the soul.??Flaubert Musset's sensitive temperament blended feminine tenderness with masculine roughness; his emotional journey was filled with passion and suffering, always shrouded in the shadows of hallucination and death; and his late-life revelry accelerated his pace toward the grave. He was the beloved child of the Muses and a martyr of love. This book, in its elegant and meticulous language, presents to us the development of Musset's writing talent and the destruction of his personal life.