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Impossible Love (A Parisian Chronicle): A New Translation
Paperback
Classic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 24 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A masterpiece of psychological realism from one of France's greatest novelists
In the glittering salons of 1840s Paris, the beautiful Marquise de Gesvres reigns supreme-admired, desired, yet profoundly bored by the very society that worships her. When the elegant Marquis de Maulévrier enters her world, their meeting sets in motion a devastating exploration of love's impossibilities among the sophisticated and the jaded.
Caught between them is the innocent Countess d'Anglure, whose capacity for genuine feeling stands in stark contrast to the emotional sterility of her aristocratic peers. As Maulévrier finds himself torn between true devotion and calculated desire, and the Marquise discovers her own frightening inability to feel, their triangle becomes a study in the corruption of sentiment by wit, vanity, and the relentless superficiality of fashionable life.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly crafts a merciless portrait of a world where intelligence has replaced passion, where the most refined souls find themselves incapable of the very emotions they most desperately seek. Neither romance nor tragedy in the conventional sense, The Impossible Love is a penetrating analysis of modern malaise-the peculiar suffering of those who have everything except the ability to truly feel.
Written with the precision of a psychological surgeon and the elegance of a master stylist, this overlooked masterpiece stands alongside the finest works of Stendhal and Flaubert as an essential document of 19th-century French literature.
For readers of classic European fiction who appreciate psychological complexity and moral ambiguity.
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