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The Nun

By Denis Diderot

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The Nun

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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 succes 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2008-10-15
Publication Date:
2008-10-15
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199555249
ISBN13:
9780199555246
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
181 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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