The Princesse de Cleves: with `The Princesse de Montpensier' and `The Comtesse de Tende'

ISBN-13: 9780199539178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Madame De La Lafayette

Opis

Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared anonymously in 1678--in the heyday of French classicism--it aroused fierce controversy among critics and readers, particularly for the extraordinary confession which forms the climax of the story. It is now regarded as a landmark in the history of women's writing. In this entirely new translation, The Princesse de Cleves is accompanied by two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.

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Recenzje

'His well-judged introduction and his notes are angled towards a student readership ... He also, and this gives his translation a definite edge, includes two important shorter stories by Madame de Lafayette. His translation offers a fair equivalent of Lafayette's careful, often knotty, phrasing, which plunges the reader into the perpexities of amorous feeling and moral choice.' Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

The Princesse de Clèves; The Princesse de Montpensier; The Comtesse de Tende

O autorze

Comtesse Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette (1634 -1693) lebte nach der Geburt zweier Söhne getrennt von ihrem Ehemann in Paris. Hier verkehrte sie am königlichen Hof und gründete einen literarischen Salon. 1662 begann sie selbst zu veröffentlichen. Nach einem intellektuell und gesellschaftlich ausgefüllten Dasein zog sie sich gegen Ende ihres Lebens ähnlich ihrer Heldin vom Hof zurück.