Paulina 1880
By: Pierre Jean Jouve ; translated by Rosette Letellier and Robert Bullen.
Contributors: Letellier, Rosette.; Bullen, Robert.
Publisher: Marlboro Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Description: "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 of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss from which neither her love for Michele nor her faith in God can rescue her."--BOOK JACKET.