Indiana
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781543215311
Paperback|9781543215311
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Indiana is a novel about love and marriage written by Amantine Aurore Dupin; it was the first work she published under her pseudonym George Sand. Published in April 1832, the novel blends the conventions of romanticism, realism, and idealism. As the novel is set partly in France and partly in the French colony of Reunion, Sand had to base her descriptions of the colony, where she had never been, on the travel writing of her friend Jules Neraud.I wrote Indiana during the autumn of 1831. It was my first novel; I wrote it without any fixed plan, having no theory of art or philosophy in my mind. I was at the age when one writes with one's instincts, and when reflection serves only to confirm our natural tendencies. Some people chose to see in the book a deliberate argument against marriage. I was not so ambitious, and I was surprised to the last degree at all the fine things that the critics found to say concerning my subversive purposes. Criticism is far too acute; that is what will cause its death. It never passes judgment ingenuously. It looks for noon at four o'clock, as the old women say, and must cause much suffering to artists who care more for its decrees than they ought to do.Under all r#65533;gimes and in all times there has been a race of critics, who, in contempt of their own talent, have fancied that it was their duty to ply the trade of denouncers, of purveyors to the prosecuting attorney's office; extraordinary functions for men of letters to assume with regard to their confr#65533;res! The rigorous measures of government against the press never satisfy these savage critics. They would have them directed not only against works but against persons as well, and, if their advice were followed, some of us would be forbidden to write anything whatsoever.
| ISBN-13 | 9781543215311 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1543215319 |
| Weight | 1.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 11.00 x 8.50 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $9.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 160 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2017-02-19 |
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