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Author_Denis Diderot
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Product details
- ISBN 9780199555246
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 127 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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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