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Delfina
Delfina Delfina carries both the dolphin's Apolline sacred intelligence — the creature that guides lost sailors, that moves between air and water, that in Greek myth was associated with transformation — and the oracle at Delphi's mysterious pronouncements. De Staël's Delphine gave the name its Romantic literary tradition as the woman whose generous, passionate nature is destroyed by a society that cannot accommodate her freedom. It suits characters who navigate between worlds with the dolphin's fluid grace while possessing the oracle's uncomfortable gift for truth.
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Delphine
Delphine — Germaine de Staël
The passionate, unconventional epistolary heroine of de Staël's 1802 novel, whose natural generosity and opposition to social convention bring her into conflict with the repressive world around her.
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