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Musset's 1832 armchair verse play — from Un Spectacle dans un fauteuil — about Frank, a Tyrolean hunter who rejects peace and the love of Déidamia in pursuit of an unnamed 'more.' A study of the Romantic temperament that desires without being able to name what it desires, and the havoc it wreaks on those who love it.
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by Alfred de Musset
The major play that develops Frank's type into the definitive form — the Romantic hero who pursues an impossible ideal at the cost of his own integrity and everyone around him.
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by Alfred de Musset
Published in the same 1832 volume — the mock-heroic poem that handles the same Romantic aspiration through ironic digression rather than tragic drama.
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by Lord Byron
The Byronic verse drama of the hero consumed by nameless guilt and aspiration — the direct model for Frank's type, the man who cannot define what he wants and destroys himself in its pursuit.
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by Alfred de Musset
The novel that provides the sociological explanation for Frank's type — the cultural diagnosis of why the Romantic generation desires without being able to name or satisfy what it desires.
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great German verse drama of infinite aspiration — Faust's deal with Mephistopheles to escape the limits of what can be satisfied is the largest version of the same Faustian bargain Frank is making.
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by François-René de Chateaubriand
The founding French Romantic portrait of the type — René's vague aspiration and his inability to find worthy objects for it is Frank's condition stated as lyric confession rather than dramatic action.
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by Benjamin Constant
The coldest analytical portrait of the Romantic aspiration that cannot commit to the love that would satisfy it — Adolphe's incapacity for sustained feeling is the prose version of what Frank's aspiration destroys.
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by Alfred de Musset
The companion verse play from the same 1832 volume — lighter, more whimsical, showing what Musset does with the dream of love from the other side: the girl's dream against the hero's aspiration.
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