Confession of a Child of the Century

LIMITED EDITION of 620 numbered copies. This is one of 600 copies on Holland laid paper.

This novel by Alfred de Musset was published in 1836, when Musset was 26 years old. "I have a strong desire to write our story. It seems to me that it would cure me and uplift my heart. I would like to build you an altar, even if it were with my bones..."This is how, on April 30, 1834, a month after the tumultuous stay of the two writer-lovers in Venice, Alfred de Musset shared his project of "confession" with George Sand. This almost autobiographical novel, where flirtation soon gives way to intimate tragedy, now appears as one of the seminal books of the French nineteenth century.