In Les Caprices de Marianne , in 1833, Musset presents to us the two faces of a disenchanted youth; on one side, the dark Coelio, inhabited by amorous despair; on the other, his ironic friend, Octave, who bets on generalized derision. Between the two, the capricious Marianne makes the wrong choice - and Coelio is killed following a mistake. Painful impasse of romanticism: to die of love or to no longer believe in anything.In Les Caprices de Marianne , in 1833, Musset presents to us the two faces of a disenchanted youth; on one side, the dark Coelio, inhabited by amorous despair; on the other, his ironic friend, Octave, who bets on generalized derision. Between the two, the capricious Marianne makes the wrong choice - and Coelio is killed following a mistake. Painful impasse of romanticism: to die of love or to no longer believe in anything.
