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The Nun
Denis Diderot
Translated by Russell Goulbourne
240 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-955524-6
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Paperback
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11 September 2008
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- The first major new translation of this classic novel for thirty years, Russell Goulbourne's edition is based on the latest scholarship and includes a comprehensive introduction and notes
- Includes the all-important prefatory material, placed by Diderot at the end of the novel, and missing from recent translations
- The lively introduction covers Diderot's career, his subversion of the conventions of novel-writing, the representation of lesbianism and film adaptations
- The notes not only illuminate the novel but also eighteenth-century French society
'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.Readership: Readers and students of French literature, Diderot, the Enlightenment, comparative literature, literature in translation, history, general humanities, gender studies
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Denis Diderot Translated by Russell Goulbourne, Lecturer in French, University of Leeds
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"Russell Goulbourne's wide-ranging introduction shows clearly how the work's past significance and it present meaning are linked: Goulbourne's excellent translation maintains the reader's involvement without sacrificing accuracy." - Times Literary Supplement
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