In the canon
The Confession of a Child of the Century
Alfred de Musset
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1836
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
A fork slips to the floor at a supper party, Octave stoops beneath the cloth to fetch it, and there is his mistress's hand folded into another man's. Everything that follows comes out of that half second of looking.
I have to explain how I was first taken with the malady of the age.
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