Denis Diderot 
Nun [PDF ebook] 

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‘You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you are a slave in the cloister.’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 succs de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot’s novelis 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● ISBN 9780191516832 ● Traduttore Russell Goulbourne ● Casa editrice Oxford University Press, UK ● Pubblicato 2005 ● Scaricabile 6 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2272369 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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