About the book: 1960 / Charles Nodier is a very unique figure in the history of French literature. His literary work is inseparable from the history of French romanticism - at the same time, he has always stood among the French romantics apart. He was a contemporary of two literary “generations” of romanticism - and in fact did not belong to either of them. He was a kind of “pioneer” in romanticism - and always found himself, as it were, in opposition to the romantic literature of his time. Ch. Nodier's first novel, Stella, or the Exiles, tells the story of a French emigrant who finds love in a hermit's hut.