Adolphe

A young nobleman with the best prospects whimsically conquers another's beloved, Elléonore, like a trophy. However, instead of a fleeting affair, a bond develops that threatens to suffocate the protagonist. "Adolphe" is a suffocating chamber play about a self-chosen dependency from which there seems to be no escape. The flight from the confines of society leads to an even tighter isolation: togetherness becomes a prison, and closeness turns into a shackle. Adolphe experiences first love as a vortex that pulls him away from his predetermined path, making a return to a regulated life impossible, plunging him into deep despair and leading Elléonore to ruin. At the beginning of 1807, Benjamin Constant noted in his diary: "I will write a novel that is my own story." Just fifteen days later, a classic is born: timeless due to the shocking authenticity of personal suffering, yet strikingly relevant in its compulsion for self-observation. A story about the constraints of love and the guilt one bears when love comes to an end.