Denis Diderot | The Nun
- 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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Франсис Бърнет | Тайната градина
9.90 лв.
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Джордж Елиът | Адам Бийд
15.90 лв.
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Джон Бюкан | Тридесет и деветте стъпала
14.90 лв.
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Жан-Жак Русо | За обществения договор
24.90 лв.
