Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is for most people the author of one book: Paul et Virginie. This new edition of his play Empsael et Zoraide, presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a considerably more muscular text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the masters are black and their slaves white, joining forces in the antislavery debate which reached its height with the French Revolution. Bernardin thus introduces into it a rare element of humour which, had his play ever been performed, would have made his audiences sit up and think. This...

Pablo y Virginia es una novela de amor. Los protagonistas son dos amigos de la infancia que se enamoran inocentemente pero terminan muriendo de forma tragica cuando naufraga el barco en el que viajan (un hecho real que sucedio en el ano 1744). La historia esta ambientada en la isla Mauricio durante el gobierno colonial frances. El lugar se llamaba entonces Isla de Francia, y el autor lo habia visitado. Escrita en visperas de la Revolucion Francesa, la novela es considerada la mejor obra de Bernardin. Muestra el destino de los hijos de la naturaleza corrompidos por el sentimentalismo falso y...

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