Denis Diderot: The Nun | Taschenbuch

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In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause c l bre 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.

Über den Autor

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.

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140443004
ISBN-10:	0140443002
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Diderot, Denis
Übersetzung:	Leonard Tancock
Hersteller:	Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	181 x 111 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Denis Diderot
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.05.2005
Gewicht:	0,185 kg