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_aBourget, Paul, _d1852-1935 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aDeuxième amour. Finnish |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aToinen rakkaus |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-09-09 | ||
| 508 | _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen | ||
| 520 | _a"Toinen rakkaus" by Paul Bourget is a novel written in the late 19th century. It is a psychologically acute study of love, weariness, and conscience centered on Elie Laurence, a disillusioned young diplomat who becomes entangled with Claire de Velde and her lover Gérard Lairesse in Parisian high society. The narrative probes a delicate triangle where friendship, desire, and moral duty collide, examining the cost of “second love” against social judgment and inner truth. The opening of this novel first sketches Bourget’s career and method—his meticulous psychological analysis of the elite—then begins Elie Laurence’s story: after a duel abroad derails his career, he returns to Paris and confronts a profound spiritual ennui born of trivial affairs and empty routine. He unexpectedly meets Gérard Lairesse, once scandalously eloped with the dignified Claire Audry (now Claire de Velde), and is invited to their home. Elie notes subtle signs of distance between the pair—separate rhythms, awkward meals, mismatched interests—while Claire’s reserved grace and quiet sadness captivate him. Drawn to her afternoon solitude, he becomes a daily visitor, their conversations deepening into a tender, avowed “friendship.” A pivotal evening finds Claire in despair; shared sympathy binds them, and Elie realizes he loves her even as he vows to remain only a friend out of loyalty to Gérard. The segment closes with Elie’s growing jealousy and his clear sense that Gérard stays with Claire less from passion than from duty, setting the stage for the novel’s central emotional conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto, 1909 |
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| 653 | _aFrench fiction -- Translations into Finnish | ||
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_aTuura, Timo, _d1885-1963 |
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