Hatred of Love

Lesueur, Daniel, 1860-1921Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 517K words
Chapters: 52

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Haine d'amour by Daniel LesueurAuthor: Lesueur, Daniel, 1860-1921,Language: French, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Nov 21, 2015

Editor's review

This is the novel Haine d'amour (literally "Hate of Love") by the French writer Daniel Lesueur (1860–1921), released free in the original French by Project Gutenberg. Lesueur was a French novelist and poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose work often centers on emotional entanglements and women's circumstances; Haine d'amour continues in this vein, building its narrative around the psychological tension of love intertwined with hate. As an ebook it is easy to search and carry, making it suitable as reading material in the original French and as further reading for those interested in Belle Époque literature and popular fiction. Readers are advised to understand the characters' motives in light of late nineteenth-century French society and to note how the narrative pace and psychological description are handled. Note that this is a public-domain electronic text without modern annotations or an introduction; first-time readers should use a dictionary and background materials alongside it.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers with intermediate or better French who want to read the original
Readers interested in late nineteenth-century French literature and fiction of the emotions
Students and enthusiasts studying French popular fiction and women's writing
Readers who like free public-domain ebooks and prefer digital reading

Not a good fit for

Readers who cannot read French and need a Chinese translation
Readers expecting modern annotations, an introduction, and detailed background
Readers who prefer fast-paced plots and have limited patience for psychological description

Reading tips

First read through the chapter titles and opening paragraphs to grasp the character relationships before close reading.
Keep a French dictionary at hand and look up nineteenth-century usages and idioms promptly, taking notes.
Use background material on Belle Époque French society to understand the characters' feelings and choices.
After finishing, trace the key turning points in the shift between love and hate, and revisit the foreshadowing in the psychological passages.

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Is this book in French or Chinese?

According to Project Gutenberg, the book is in French; it is the original French electronic edition and contains no Chinese translation. Chinese readers need some French reading ability or should read with a dictionary and other aids.

What kind of writer is Lesueur?

Daniel Lesueur (1860–1921) was a French novelist and poet whose work often focuses on emotional relationships and women's circumstances. This book is one of his novels; for the specific plot and characters, consult the original text, as this edition provides no modern introduction.

Does this edition have annotations and an introduction?

According to the available information, this is a public-domain electronic text released by Project Gutenberg that mainly provides the original content; no modern annotations or introduction are stated. For background, consult histories of French literature and studies of the author separately.

Is it suitable for learning French?

It can serve as extensive reading material for intermediate or advanced French learners, but the vocabulary and sentence patterns of the late nineteenth century pose some difficulty for beginners. Use it with a dictionary, graded-reading experience, and background materials, and prefer to work through the short chapters gradually.

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Lesueur, Daniel, 1860-1921 Author

Daniel Lesueur (1860–1921) was a French writer, born Jeanne Loiseau, who published under a pen name. Public information about her is limited, and the details of her life are difficult to establish with certainty, but the eight works held in the collection give a clear sense of her output. Her representative works include Le droit à la force, Justice de femme, Haine d'amour, Amour d'aujourd'hui, Le meurtre d'une âme, Madame de Ferneuse and Le marquis de Valcor, as well as the poetry collection Poésies de Daniel Lesueur. Judging by their titles and genres, she wrote both fiction and poetry, and her themes frequently centre on emotion, family ethics, relations between the sexes and social justice, with a tendency toward psychological realism. Her work occupied a place between popular and serious literature in France at the turn of the twentieth century, and some of her novels reached a fairly wide readership.