Madame Sand a Biographical Comedy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Madame Sand a Biographical Comedy

In Madame Sand the author has brought us past lives free from the odor of camphor and the rattle of moth balls. His resurrection of famous characters is worked with a touch that brings them really to life. It is not the efficacy of the embalming fluid but the glow of life that he has breathed into them.

The biographical drama usually has the vigor of an obituary. Instead of Here Is it is invariably Here Lies. But not so with George and Alfred and Pagello and Chopin and all the others. They live and breathe and seek. And in their seeking we find all that is at once human and tragic. Can one feel that George is seeking liberty or is it liberation? Is it not the hungry reaching - out for some new con tact that will explain all the mysteries of life? Is it not the dissatisfied soul - not dissatisfied with what it has but with what it feels? Is not the same quest for the unknown to be found in Alfred and Chopin and to a less degree in Pagello?

Are these not souls between mediocrity and great ness wh'o scoff at the conventions of one and are lost in the mazes of the other? Is it not a form of growth, of casting off, of revolution?

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Excerpt from Madame Sand a Biographical Comedy

Only one man has had the wit to paint Aurore Dudevant in a few swift words - Matthew Arnold.

"She was like one of the early gods," he said - or something like it. Only her own hundred odd books can give even a faint understanding of this amazing woman. Among all women - this creature of a thousand colors - grande dame and Bohemian - gamine and daughter of kings, soubrette and philosopher, pagan and religieuse, housefrau and mad lover, everyday hard worker and impassioned dreamer, simpleton and sage, poseuse and farm woman, tragedy queen and imp of mischief, Sibyl and "big child" everything that lives and burns and flames in man or woman, George Sand the generous, the kind, the simple. What she loved best in all the world was kindness.

Your incorrigibly brilliant and funny play, dear Mr. Moeller, reached me in the North Woods and I laughed and laughed and then when I had quite finished laughing I set out to learn something of George Sand - something that would give me better understanding than my superficial knowledge of the earlier flamboyant novels - or the beautiful peasant stories.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.