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Benjamin Constant
1767–1830
A sharp observer of politics and private feeling, this Swiss-born writer and thinker helped shape modern liberal ideas while also creating one of the great early psychological novels. Best known today for Adolphe, he wrote with unusual honesty about freedom, ambition, and the complications of love.
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Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
Adolphe : Erään tuntemattoman papereista löydetty tarina
by Benjamin Constant
About the author
Born in Lausanne in 1767, Benjamin Constant became a major figure in French-speaking political and literary life during the turbulent years after the French Revolution. He was active as a political thinker, journalist, and public figure, and is widely remembered for defending individual liberty and constitutional government.
Alongside his political writing, he wrote the novel Adolphe, published in 1816, which is often seen as an important early psychological novel. Its close attention to motive, hesitation, and emotional conflict helped give Constant a lasting place in literary history as well as political thought.
His life moved through many of the central debates of his age, including the meaning of freedom in the modern world. He died in Paris in 1830, leaving behind work that continued to matter both to readers of fiction and to students of liberal political ideas.