Parámetros
- 234 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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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
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- Publicado en
- 2005
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- Título
- The Nun
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Denis Diderot
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publicado en
- 2005
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0192804308
- ISBN13
- 9780192804303
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Temas religiosos, Temática filosófica, Ciencia ficción, Amor, Clásicos, Francia, Entretenimiento, Novelas sociales, Literatura francesa, Violencia, Sátira, Destino, Siglo XVIII, Intrigas, Ilustración, Monasterios, Abadías, Ciencia ficción humorística, Monjas, Hipocresía
- Primera publicación
- 1780
- Título original
- La Religieuse
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.