The nun - Couverture rigide

Denis Diderot (translated By Leonard Tancock)

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0850670543 ISBN 13 : 9780850670547

Editeur : Folio Society, 1972

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause célèbre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created this masterpiece - a fictitious set of desperate and pleading letters to the Marquis from a teenage girl forced into the nunnery because she is illegitimate. In these letters, the impressionable and innocent Suzanne Simonin describes the cruelty and abuse she has suffered in an institution poisoned by vicious gossip, intrigues, persecutions and deviance. Considered too subversive during Diderot's lifetime, The Nun first appeared in print in 1796 following the Revolution. Part gripping novel, part licentious portrayal of sexual fervour and part damning attack on oppressive religious institutions, it remains one of the most utterly original works of the many eighteenth-century.

Biographie de l'auteur

Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713. After graduating in Paris in 1732, he was nominally a law student for ten years, but was actually leading a precarious bohemian but studious existence. In the early 1740s he met three contemporaries who were of great significance to him and to the age: a'Alembert, Condillac and Rousseau, who assisted Diderot in the compilation of the Encyclopedie, which he worked on until its completion in 1773. Interested in the mind-body dichotomy, his work was a bold mixture of science and philosophy. He died in 1784.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Folio Society
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0850670543
• ISBN 13: 9780850670547
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible