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His first novel was The Carthusian (1838), a work full of sentimental and melancholy reflections. While Eotvos was travelling once in France he visited the Grande Chartreuse, the cloister of terrible silence, and met there a pale-faced young Carthusian to whom a beauti- ful and passionate woman had written letter after letter urging him not to take the vows. This incident provided Eotvos with his subject. The Carthusian is a novel of the type of Chateaubriand's Rene, or Benjamin Constant's Adol...phe, that is to say, of the kind of novel in which we see the mat de siecle at work. But the novel of Eotvos has a strong moral foundation lacking in similar works. " It is only the selfish for whom life contains no consolation. " That is the fundamental idea of the book, and the hero Gustave wins a gradual victory over egotism. The story is written as though it were the diary of a monk of the Grande Chartreuse. The hero is a rich THE NOVEL 173 young French count, who after experiencing much of the world's deception, renounces the pleasures of life and becomes a Carthusian monk.
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