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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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- Rok vydania
- 2005
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- Titul
- The Nun
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Denis Diderot
- Vydavateľ
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Rok vydania
- 2005
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0192804308
- ISBN13
- 9780192804303
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Filozofická tematika, Náboženské témy, Sci-Fi, Klasika, Láska, Francúzsko, Zábava, Francúzska literatúra, Spoločenské romány, Násilie, 18. storočie, Satira, Osud, Intrigy, Osvietenstvo, Kláštory, opátstva, Humorné Sci-Fi, Rehoľníčky, Pokrytectvo
- Prvé vydanie
- 1780
- Pôvodný názov
- La Religieuse
- Hodnotenie
- 3,75 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.