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Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.
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The Nun, Denis Diderot
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2005
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- The Nun
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Denis Diderot
- Wydawca
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Rok wydania
- 2005
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0192804308
- ISBN13
- 9780192804303
- Seria
- Tagi
- Tematy religijne, Tematyka filozoficzna, Miłość, Francja, Zabawa, Literatura francuska, Przemoc, Satyra, XVIII wiek, Los, Intrygi, Oświecenie, Klasztory & Opactwa, Zakonnice, Hipokryzja
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1780
- Oryginalna nazwa
- La Religieuse
- Ocena
- 3,75 z 5
- Opis
- Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.