- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Her Father's Daughter -
Chapter Two The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe -
Chapter Three Sophie Victorious -
Chapter Four Spanish Sojourn -
Chapter Five Sophie's Choice -
Chapter Six Enigma of the Sphinx -
Chapter Seven Convent and Conversion -
Chapter Eight Coming of Age -
Chapter Nine Pater Semper Incertus Est -
Chapter Ten Marriage and Motherhood -
Chapter Eleven Passion in the Pyrenees -
Chapter Twelve Ready, Set, Go -
Chapter Thirteen “Our Motto is Freedom” -
Chapter Fourteen George Sand Is Born -
Chapter Fifteen A Daughter Is Born -
Chapter Sixteen The Author and the Actress -
Chapter Seventeen Sons and Lovers -
Chapter Eighteen Mother Love -
Chapter Nineteen Liaison Dangereuse -
Chapter Twenty Broken Bonds: Solange and Chopin -
Chapter Twenty-One Collateral Damage and Lucrézia Floriani -
Chapter Twenty-Two Revolution and Reverberations -
Chapter Twenty-Three Coming to Writing -
Chapter Twenty-Four Confession of a Young Girl -
Chapter Twenty-Five The Art of Loving - Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Coming to Writing
Coming to Writing
- Chapter:
- (p.258) Chapter Twenty-Three Coming to Writing
- Source:
- George Sand
- Author(s):
Elizabeth Harlan
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter illustrates how, even though George Sand's childhood was dominated by a cruel and divisive contest between her mother and grandmother, she nostalgically recounts in her autobiography that life's “beginnings are so sweet and childhood such a happy time.” This showed that, as a child, Sand's dilemma was her inability to reconcile these differences so as to make harmony out of dissonance. Although Sand casts her inclination toward idealization against the political backdrop of the “terrors of the century,” what she describes as her need to combat the “emptiness and horror of human existence” could be said just as well about her personal and creative life.
Keywords: autobiography, George Sand's childhood, harmony, dissonance, idealization, terrors of the century, creative life
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Her Father's Daughter -
Chapter Two The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe -
Chapter Three Sophie Victorious -
Chapter Four Spanish Sojourn -
Chapter Five Sophie's Choice -
Chapter Six Enigma of the Sphinx -
Chapter Seven Convent and Conversion -
Chapter Eight Coming of Age -
Chapter Nine Pater Semper Incertus Est -
Chapter Ten Marriage and Motherhood -
Chapter Eleven Passion in the Pyrenees -
Chapter Twelve Ready, Set, Go -
Chapter Thirteen “Our Motto is Freedom” -
Chapter Fourteen George Sand Is Born -
Chapter Fifteen A Daughter Is Born -
Chapter Sixteen The Author and the Actress -
Chapter Seventeen Sons and Lovers -
Chapter Eighteen Mother Love -
Chapter Nineteen Liaison Dangereuse -
Chapter Twenty Broken Bonds: Solange and Chopin -
Chapter Twenty-One Collateral Damage and Lucrézia Floriani -
Chapter Twenty-Two Revolution and Reverberations -
Chapter Twenty-Three Coming to Writing -
Chapter Twenty-Four Confession of a Young Girl -
Chapter Twenty-Five The Art of Loving - Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
