The Despot and the Slave

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The Despot and the Slave
Folio Society
Biography & True Stories

The Despot and the Slave

Edition year 1986
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Emma Chichester Clark
Translator Dan Hofstadter
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 140
Dimensions 22.9 × 14.9 cm

Edition details

The Despot and the Slave; An Autobiography in Fact and Fiction from the Writings of Benjamin Constant. Translated and edited by Dan Hofstadter. 6 colour drawings by Emma Chichester Clark. Bound in blue cloth with a design in silver by Clark. Lilac flecked endleaves. Cream slipcase. 22.9x14.9cm. 140pp

About the book

The Despot and the Slave brings together autobiographical and fictional writing by Benjamin Constant, selected and translated by Dan Hofstadter. The collection explores a private world of attraction, dependence, hesitation and the desire to escape emotional obligations. Constant examines the uncomfortable distance between understanding one's motives and acting generously towards another person. Read at the boundary between memoir and psychological fiction, these writings reveal a restless intelligence turning its scrutiny on love and personal freedom.

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