Benjamin Constant Reihenfolge der Bücher

Die Erzählung thematisiert die komplexen emotionalen und psychologischen Konflikte des Protagonisten Adolphe, der in eine leidenschaftliche, aber destruktive Beziehung verwickelt ist. Der Roman, ursprünglich zwischen 1806 und 1807 entstanden, bietet einen tiefen Einblick in die Themen Liebe, Freiheit und das Streben nach Identität. Diese Ausgabe ist eine sorgfältige Bearbeitung des Textes, die an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst wurde, und präsentiert die Geschichte in einem lesefreundlichen Großdruck. Die ansprechende Umschlagabbildung von Ingres ergänzt das literarische Werk.

Volume 7 contains the journal written in Greek characters and kept by the author between 1811 and 1816. It traces his itinerary from the point where he left Switzerland for Germany up to his return to Paris under the Second Restoration. The journal records Constant's stay in Germany, the Cent-jours, his volte-face to Napoleon and the Empire, and his exile in London, alongside the author's errant sentimental attachments to Charlotte von Hardenberg, Juliette Récamier, and Mme de Staël, and his ongoing scholarly aspirations and frustrated political ambitions. The journal is followed by the carnet written after an accident, and a series of notebooks on his expenses, which Constant kept to his death. The texts come with the usual resources: a chronology, a record of the author's movements, listings of persons and proper names, a bibliography, and various indexes.

The 8th volume in this edition contains the works written by Benjamin Constant between March 1813 and April 1814. The texts are different in nature. Alongside a work of fiction, »Florestan or the Siege of Soissons«, the reader will find »The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation« (the publication that did most to cement Constant's reputation as a political author), various propagandistic writings penned in the service of the Prince-Royal of Sweden, and finally »Reflections on Constitutions and Guarantees«, a work of political theory. All these texts are precursors of the works from the period of the First Restoration and the Cent-Jours assembled in Volume 9, so that these two volumes are closely interrelated.

The first volume of the Correspondance générale de Benjamin Constant covers the period from 1774 to 1792 and contains the letters written by the child, from a very young age, to members of his family, those of the student who had been sent by his father to the Universities of Erlangen and Edinburgh, those of the young man in flight towards England and Scotland and, finally, those of the bored chamberlain at the court of Brunswick.

In der von Zweifeln überschatteten Liebesbeziehung zwischen Adolphe und der zehn Jahre älteren Ellenore, einer 'femme de trente ans', schildert Benjamin Constant mit analytischer Präzision ohnegleichen die Seelenregungen eines jungen Mannes, der weder lieben noch verlassen kann.