Paulina 1880

Pierre Jean Jouve

first published 1925 Editions Flammarion, 1998 paperback 246 pages

"Paulina 1880, published in 1925, strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. In Pierre Jean Jouve's first novel, Paulina - said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan - enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death...

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Paulina 1880 paperback · 1998 · Editions Flammarion · 246 pages · 9782070366095
Paulina 1880 edition · 1995 · Marlboro Press · 188 pages
Paulina 1880. edition · 1973 · Bobbs-Merrill · 188 pages

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