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En 1833 Musset rencontre George Sand, avec qui il entretiendra une relation passionnelle et tumultueuse, source d'une grande inspiration créatrice. De fait, la douleur est au centre de la créativité de l'auteur, et la souffrance vive qu'il ressent pendant sa relation avec Sand et à la suite de leur séparation lui inspirera plusieurs chefs-d'œuvre.

Questo romanzo della poetessa e scrittrice Annie Vivanti è quasi un’autobiografia , tanto la sua vita personale si è intrecciata con la storia di queste due donne: Nancy, poetessa prodigio, e Anne-marie, sua figlia, violinista prodigio. Chi ha del Genio, dentro di sé, dice la scrittrice, può divenire un Divoratore di coloro che gli stanno accanto, ch divengono, dunque, dei Divorati. Un genio che, come un pifferaio magico, ti costringe a seguirlo, incantata dalla sua musica, fino a dentro una montagna, fuori dalla vita.

Elizabeth von Arnim, who is best known for her later novel The Enchanted April, married a Prussian aristocrat and, with their five children, lived in Nassenheide, Pomerania. Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel about the joy that the protagonist finds in the delights of her Pomeranian garden, which provides relief from the stifling environment of her household. The novel was originally published anonymously because von Arnim feared that her husband, whom she satirised in the book, would disapprove.

Published in 1899, The Solitary Summer is a charming companion to von Arnim’s earlier novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden. As with its prequel, the novel is semi-autobiographical and in the form of a series of diary entries. The narrator decides to spend one summer alone in her country house far away from the demands and distractions of the world. She offers us a witty and lyrical account of a solitary summer, filled with reading and reflections on her beloved garden. However, her months removed from society turn out to be less solitary than planned.