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100 1 _aRivière, Jacques,
_d1886-1925
245 1 0 _aAimée
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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 2026-03-14
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 Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"Aimée" by Jacques Rivière is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is an intimate psychological exploration of love, marriage, and self-sabotage, told by a hypersensitive narrator whose craving for emotional intensity unsettles his happy union with Marthe and draws him toward his friend Georges’s formidable fiancée—and later wife—Aimée. The work centers on the narrator, Marthe, Georges Bourguignon, and Aimée Laval, probing the frictions between desire, loyalty, and the need to suffer. The opening of the novel follows the narrator from a childhood awe of women and a timid, almost worshipful sensuality to a serene marriage with Marthe that soon feels too smooth for his restless heart. He befriends Georges, a pleasure-loving friend whose easy worldliness and family circle loosen the narrator’s inhibitions. When Georges confides a long-standing engagement to Aimée, the narrator meets her, is first calmed by her composure, then watches Georges marry her and immediately begin to evade the intensity of her presence under a pact of “freedom.” As Georges drifts away, Aimée’s proud reserve refuses pity, Marthe senses a change, and the narrator finds himself isolated among all three until a casual slight by Georges triggers his sudden, overwhelming realization that he loves Aimée, plunging him into sleepless, feverish turmoil. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Gallimard, 1922
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/aime00rivi
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78207
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