The classic romantic reminding us of "Carmen" by Mérimée, the "woman painted for love" by the "Son of Titian" by Musset, a powder of Chateaubriand old and young Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier and many in the spirit of Crazy love! If you are a fan of the genre "romantic", "Graziella" is a novel for you. Besides, the sublime style -quoiqu'un little ampoulé- Lamartine is there to seduce us into a classic pattern.
Where this novel becomes the most original, it is through its very strong liberal political allusions (opposing Napoleon III through the critique of Napoleon I in the time of the story as an analogy), very revolution of 1848.
A taste of -trop- very idealistic policy Lamartine as "Graziella" is a part (Books VII to X) of his autobiography "The Confessions" published in 1849 (Then Graziella was published alone -as roman- in 1852 ).
Lamartine proposes a context that is both autobiographical, diving in the political (1848-1852), with a typical story of romantic genre.
