The Confession of a Child of the Century

Synopsis

Recently made into a film starring charlotte gainsbourg, pete doherty and lily cole, this french novel of love and betrayal is now available in a new english translation for the first time in over a hundred years. Inspired by his scandalous real-life affair with the flamboyant woman who called herself george sand, alfred de musset's confession is a searingly honest, passionate account of a young man's rite of passage.