Name: Evenor et Leucippe / Les amours de l'Âge d'Or - Légende antidéluvienne
Author: George Sand
ISBN: -

Evenor et Leucippe / Les amours de l'Âge d'Or - Légende antidéluvienne

By George Sand 12 Mar, 2019

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In general, a preface is intended to highlight, as modestly as possible, the qualities of the book that is presented to the reader. It would be better understood to point out to him all the defects; If he had been duly warned, he would be better disposed to indulgence. I will try this method by saying that Evenor and Leucippe is neither a story, nor a novel, nor a poem properly so called; that the book is perhaps very prosaic to those who would only find a fancy, and very daring for those who would take it too seriously. It is like the preliminary discourse, in the form of a narrative, of a work that I had undertaken and to which I did not quite renounce: a work which would be, at the same time, the novel and the history of the love across all ages of humanity. For love I would not only hear the reciprocal attraction of the sexes, but all great loves; and, to begin with, the tale of Wanting to do things in conscience, I had to go back to the manifestation of the first intellectual love of which myths have transmitted us the legend, and, finding that that of Adam and Eve had been superabundantly amplified and commented on, I chose less arbitrary types. The reasons for this choice, like those of the romantic inductions I abandoned myself with a complacency that the reader may not share, can be found in the book, and this is one of the shortcomings I must point out. to criticism to facilitate his work, and to the reader to induce him to patience. Less

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