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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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- Année de publication
- 2005
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- Titre
- The Nun
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Denis Diderot
- Éditeur
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0192804308
- ISBN13
- 9780192804303
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thématique philosophique, Thèmes religieux, Science-fiction, Classiques, Amour, France, Divertissement, Littérature française, Roman social, Violence, XVIIIe siècle, Satire, Destin, Intrigues, L'Âge des Lumières, Monastères, Abbayes, Science-fiction humoristique, Soeurs, Hypocrisie
- Première publication
- 1780
- Titre original
- La Religieuse
- Évaluation
- 3,75 sur 5
- Description
- 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.