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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
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- Titel
- The Nun
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Denis Diderot
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0192804308
- ISBN13
- 9780192804303
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Philosophisches Thema, Religiöse Themen, Sci-Fi, Klassiker, Liebe, Frankreich, Spaß, Französische Literatur, Literarische Fiktion, Gewalt, 18. Jahrhundert, Satire, Schicksal, Intrigen, Aufklärung, Klöster, Abteien, Humorvolle Sci-Fi, Nonnen, Heuchelei
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1780
- Originaltitel
- La Religieuse
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.