The Princesse de Clèves
with `the princesse de montpensier' and `the comtesse de tende'
$30.42
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2008
Summary
The Princesse de Clèves: A Novel of Passion and Self-Deception
Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette’s novel 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, in particular for the extraordinary confession which forms the climax of the story. Having long been considered a class…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199539178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199539170 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Author: | Madame de Lafayette, Terence Cave |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
‘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
About The Author
Madame de Lafayette
Terence Cave is a Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford; and Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford.
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