Winter in Majorca - Softcover

George Sand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8440070608 ISBN 13: 9788440070609

Publisher: Valldemosa Edition, 1956

Synopsis

Un Hiver a Majorque describes a personal clash between the pre-Revolutionary Classical world and the world of post-Revolutionary Romanticism. The Romantic movement was an unstable an attempt to reconcile the aristocratic, mocking genius of Voltaire with the plebeian aspirations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the aggressive spirit of Napoleon. Its leading literary figures, most of them social misfits, had turned from the formal gardens and artificial salons of the eighteenth century to a worship of the wild nature, especially in remote mountainous regions, an exploration of ghostly medieval terrors, an a patronage of simple, undogmatic Christianity. The Majorcans have lately been taken to task for continuing to print and sell George Sand's Un Hiver a Majorque, in which she brands them as barbarians, thieves, monkeys and Polynesian savages. And, indeed, they should not have let the book appear without critical comment on its many errors and hysterical slanders. Their indifference is, however, characteristically 'She did not like our Forefathers; our forefathers did not like her. We do not change. Therefore let those who read this book judge of its truth by their knowledge of us. She must, of course, have been ill and unhappy, poor creature.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Valldemosa Edition
• Publication date: 1956
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8440070608
• ISBN 13: 9788440070609
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200