Adrienne Mesurat

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Adrienne Mesurat is a novel by Julien Green from 1927.

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The main character Adrienne, a young woman of 18 years, grows up in well-to-do circumstances with her despotic father and her terminally ill sister Germaine in Latour-l'Évèque, France. Everyday life is characterized by meticulous meticulousness , the smallest rule violations are punished relentlessly by Monsieur Mesurat. As a projection surface for her thirst for freedom, Adrienne dreams of a love affair with the neighboring doctor Maurecourt, whom she only briefly saw once. Also suffering from the father's tyranny, her sister Germaine decides to flee the family. Adrienne supports her escape financially.

When Monsieur Mesurat sees through Adrienne's involvement in the escape, he threatens her with even greater restrictions on her freedom. In a panic, she throws him down the stairs, the man dies instantly. The police assume an accident and Adrienne can inherit her father's stately. Nervously and mentally at the end, she experiences the support of the shady neighbor Madame Legras during this time, who ultimately deprives her of her fortune. The death of the father by no means offers the longed-for liberation. Senseless and aimless trips to the surrounding region cannot offer her any change, her timid attempts to find Dr. Getting to know Maurecourt better are prevented by his jealous sister. When it turns out that Maurecourt, who is almost 27 years her senior, is terminally ill and will die in a few years, Adrienne falls into a catatonia in the course of which she completely loses her identity .

In 2000 Adrienne Mesurat appeared in Germany in the new translation by Elisabeth Edl with an afterword by Wolfgang Matz, the audio book production in 2002 was spoken by Udo Samel . The book had already been translated in 1965 by Proust translator Eva Rechel-Mertens . The first translation of the novel in 1928 was by Irene Kafka .

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In 1953 Adrienne Mesurat was made into a film by Marcel L'Herbier with Anouk Aimée and Alain Cuny in the leading roles for French television. In 1969 Oscar Fritz Schuh directed a black-and-white production for Hessischer Rundfunk , Ruth Niehaus played the protagonist.

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Green's novel, which characterizes everyday bourgeoisie as a kind of earthly inferno, without any possibility of liberation, was particularly well received by Walter Benjamin .

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