Armance is a romance novel set during the Bourbon Restoration by French writer Stendhal , published anonymously in 1827. It was Stendhal's first novel, though he had published essays and critical works on literature, art, and travel since 1815.
5-532: Armance may refer to: Armance (novel) , an 1827 romance novel by Stendhal Armance (river) , a tributary of the Armançon in France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Armance . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
10-414: The École Polytechnique , is attracted to Armance Zohiloff, who shares his feelings. The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided. A series of clues suggest that Octave is impotent as a result of a severe accident. Octave is experiencing a deep inner turmoil; he himself illustrates the pain of the century's romantics. When the pair do eventually marry,
15-441: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armance&oldid=698482663 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Armance (novel) Octave de Malivert, a taciturn but brilliant young man barely out of
20-653: The slanders of a rival convince Octave that Armance had married only out of selfishness. Octave leaves to fight in Greece, and dies there of sorrow. Armance is based on the theme of Olivier , a novel by the Duchess Claire de Duras . In Olivier , the protagonist cannot marry the Comtesse de Nangis because of a secret. Although the secret is never explicitly revealed in the novel, it is generally understood to be impotence, or more subtly, homosexuality . Impotence
25-540: Was sometimes used as a subterfuge for male homosexuality in early 19th century French literature, since homosexuality was considered too salacious to be openly addressed at the time. André Gide regarded this novel as the best of Stendhal's novels, whom he was grateful to for having created a helpless lover, even if he reproached him for having eluded the fate of this love: "I can hardly convince myself that Armance, as painted for us by Stendhal, would have been suited by it." In Umberto Eco 's novel The Prague Cemetery ,
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