Les Misérables, Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations, Chapter 1: riassunto
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In Chapter 1, Marius visits Cosette’s garden every night during May 1832, and their love grows through conversation, tenderness, and restrained physical affection. The narrator presents their happiness as innocent and spiritually intense, while also acknowledging the bodily attraction that separates lovers from friends.
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- Éponine keeps ruffians away from the Rue Plumet and leads Marius there; he enters Cosette’s garden through a loose gate bar.
- Throughout May 1832, Marius and Cosette meet nightly, sharing deep affection without repeating their first kiss.
- Cosette reveals that her real name is Euphrasie, but chooses Cosette because Marius prefers it.
- Their playful conversations include compliments, concern for Marius’s health, and laughter over his mistaken belief that her name is Ursule.
- Marius imagines happiness as an endless repetition of these quiet evenings, while both lovers show tenderness toward small injured things.
- The narrator closes by placing their private affection beside nature’s physical purposes and the vast movements of the universe.
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