La Solitude et l’amour philosophique de Cleomede

by Charles Sorel, edited by Olivier Roux

Book cover: La Solitude et l’amour philosophique de Cleomede

Extent: 564 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Bibliotheque du XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 28

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(March 2018)

ISBN: 9782406061434

Price: $69.00

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In 1640, Charles Sorel published the only narrative fiction bearing his name, La Solitude et l’amour philosophique de Cleomede. This work is simultaneously a partly allegorical novel of philosophical initiation, a more or less admittedly genealogical story, and a treatise on practical morality that contains its share of poetry.


In 1640, Charles Sorel published the only narrative fiction bearing his name, La Solitude et l’amour philosophique de Cleomede. This work is simultaneously a partly allegorical novel of philosophical initiation, a more or less admittedly genealogical story, and a treatise on practical morality that contains its share of poetry.

  • By (author) Charles Sorel
  • Edited by Olivier Roux