Summary,:
Mina de Vanghel Falling in love with a married man, Mina de Vanghel, a young, educated and wealthy German living in France, intervenes to lose the wife in the eyes of the husband - by pushing a man to seduce her and claim to be her lover . But the love game turns into a real obsession, which will drive the heroine to the brink of madness. How far would one go for love? Neither reason, nor morality, nor self-esteem are here barriers against absolute love, which seeks all ways to triumph. Around a heroine who embodies the “great souls” who are dear to her, Stendhal offers an incisive and profound meditation on the beauties and horrors of love, its hopes and its illusions. “Seeing and hearing at every moment the man she was mad about was the only goal of her life: she wanted nothing else, she was too happy to think of the future. »