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100 1 _aAnet, Claude,
_d1868-1931
245 1 3 _aLa rive d'Asie
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-24
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)
520 _a"La rive d'Asie" by Claude Anet is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a sensual, introspective Bildungsroman that follows Philippe, a sensitive provincial youth, through his sexual and emotional awakening—from innocent flirtations and a formative affair with a sophisticated countess to an ardent, perilous attachment to the pious, married Mme de Sées. The book explores desire, self-mastery, and conscience with a lucid, confessional voice. The opening of the novel charts Philippe’s adolescence: solitary, overcharged with desire, and tenderly befriended by his neighbor Henriette, whom he only realizes he loves after she departs. Sent to a spa with his mother, he is initiated into sex by the worldly Comtesse de Francheret, then returns home to win Henriette’s love for one luminous week before losing her and later learning of her coarse marriage. In Paris he drifts—clever, dissatisfied, skimming through brief liaisons—while confiding his ideals and hearing faint Eastern echoes in conversations with acquaintances. A chance encounter on the boulevard Saint‑Germain with a woman’s “periwinkle” eyes leads him to Mme de Sées; he insinuates himself into her reserved, devout household, playing the courteous friend while secretly plotting seduction. Summer finds him near her family in Normandy, walking the cliffs and fields, their intimacy deepening to the brink of avowal as the excerpt closes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Bernard Grasset, 1927
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/e56ce3e0-3150-4667-8e0b-a3de6186d29b
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77330
999 _c118050
_d118050