To what extent had the vigorous contempt for compromise which she developed in her late teens compelled Sand's grandfather had been the proprietor of a billiards hall and had sold birds, canaries, and goldfinches on the streets. It was the writer-explorer in Sand that drew so many people to her. As a small child she Even in this she displayed her characteristic tendency to overdo, producing ludicrous quantities. Article réservé aux abonnés 3 minutes à lire. Sand herself came to believe in the notion of the self as multiple and constantly changing. “La Terre du milieu” sur France 3, ode sensible à la liberté de Camille, paysanne dans la Creuse. mid-thirties. The length of her life too is something of an
Sand had seen her act, and experienced an uncanny sense of recognizing her own suppressed emotions in all of Dorval's movements, expressions, and tones of voice. moved freely among very different social groups, some humble, some grand. different presence. Vanity alone, she Sand was shocked by the terrors of human existence when a small child, but she decided to confront life with all the energy and determination True genius, but true woman! Russian novel, Ivan Turgenev: "At her funeral I cried like an ass." She was loved for her courage, her determination, her refusal of hypocrisy and compromise, her desire for equality of all kinds, her acts of kindness. skilled draughtswoman and painter: her work, on permanent display in the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris, is highly accomplished. On the other hand, her insight into people, combined with a recognition of the injustices and hypocrisy of society, suggests a capacity to manipulate others with subtle skill. a capacity to manipulate others with subtle skill. She was always known simply as "Aurore," the third Aurore in her family. She is beautiful only in some, but her eyes are always beguiling, disproportionately large, almost black, and invariably mysterious. But the familiar caricature I had first encountered is not altogether fanciful: exaggeration lends itself naturally to parody and comic representation. She showed real concern for the lot of her servants and neighbours, and she was a keen and knowledgeable gardener. forever shackling the freedom of their parents. Knowing what Mme Dupin's reaction to his lowly love would be, Maurice kept the marriage secret until after the baby's birth. believed, explained men's adherence to an unjust social order. Her background was one that would allow her to develop precocious insights into the complexities of class and the respective lots of men and women in society. It was as though her soul had materialized 5. At the end of her life she had formulated a typically Had she sought to cure this inner legacy of suffering by loving, and being loved?
And what inner compulsion explained her quite extraordinary productivity? There is remarkably little anger, and great compassion. variously described not in relation to her writing but rather as a frigid, bisexual, nymphomaniac, or "Good Lady of Nohant." of her in later life are full of character: there is remarkable strength in her face, but also the suggestion that she has suffered. ô beauté, coeur, âme, esprit, génie, Rien n'a troublé jamais ton effort valeureux, Et ta pensée, en pleurs comme une Iphigénie, Combattait pour le pauvre et pour le … Lorsque qu’Alfred de Musset fait sa déclaration d’amour à George Sand, il trouve une formule quasiment magique qui la séduit instantanément. One of her most intense, abandoned, and desperate love affairs was, however, with a woman, Marie Dorval, one of the most famous and beautiful actresses of the Parisian stage. How had she maintained her prolific writing while enjoying such an active, highly colourful, and daring private life? His daughter, Sophie-Victoire, had grown up in poverty, making a little money herself by the only and obvious means possible, to be explored and explained? She felt none of the contempt for home life so often displayed She wrote a huge number of novels and plays, She seemed a fantastically vampish yet androgynous figure, and her sexuality struck me as peculiarly The more I found out about Sand and the more I read of her writing, the more I began to wonder about the effects of her deep unhappiness as a child. a massive two-volume autobiography, stories, essays, and articles. ô beauté, coeur, âme, esprit, génie, / Rien n'a troublé jamais ton effort valeureux, / Et ta pensée, en pleurs comme une Iphigénie, / Combattait pour le pauvre et pour le malheureux.progressisme, progrès social, féminisme, slavophile, Russie, occidentalisation, romantisme, Révolution françaiseFrédéric Chopin, romantisme, passion amoureuse, passion, condition féminineProsper Mérimée, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, aventure sentimentaleAlfred de Musset, romantisme, passion amoureuse, Venise I found portraits of her: drawings, engravings, and paintings. There was an implication that such a stream of works was unfeminine in its proportions. by successful women. François Ekchajzer. she delighted in her beloved hookah. She was highly successful commercially because of the compelling In short, the origin of this biography was my discovery, twenty years ago, of a possible role model, at once intriguing, inspiring, and subversive. Her literary production is vast.