George Sand

Un Hiver a Majorque George Sand

Publisher Marketing: Un hiver a Majorque est un recit de voyage autobiographique de George Sand paru en 1842. Il raconte un voyage fait a Majorque en 1838-1839 avec Frederic Chopin, fort malade. Il est d'abord paru en 1841 dans la Revue des deux Mondes. Manifestement irritee par les conditions materielles de ce voyage, George Sand y montre une grande incomprehension de Majorque. Ce recit exprime ainsi sa nette intolerance envers les insulaires, comme le releveront par la suite de nombreux commentateurs, tels que Jules Percher ("Journal des debats," 11 juin 1988) ou Josephine de Brinckmann, voire, plus recemment, l'ecrivain Llorenc Villalonga." Contributor Bio:  Sand, George George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, L?lia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men s clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.