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The inspiration for three films and several operas, this classic of
French literature is set in Regency Paris and Louisiana around
1720. A tragic love story, it's also an epic adventure story with
three infidelities, three escapes, three abductions and two
murders. The action spans two continents and a social range
extending from the aristocracy to the social outcast, from pillars
of the establishment to pimps and prostitutes. Manon Lescaut's
ambiguous love story has a transcendent significance: Is it a
cautionary tale, warning of the dangers to which passion, blindly
followed, can lead? Or does it illustrate the redemptive power of
love? After all, Des Grieux's perseverance in his devotion to Manon
eventually brings about a profound change of heart in her and seems
to make possible a lasting happiness based on deep mutual
affection. The ambiguity persists to the end, when death snatches
that happiness away.
Originally published in 1942, this book contains the French text of
Abbe Prevost's 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de
Manon Lescaut, which inspired the 1893 opera by Puccini. The
original novel was considered so scandalous that Prevost was forced
to amend the original manuscript; the text reproduced here is from
the altered 1753 edition. A biographical introduction to the author
is provided at the beginning of the volume. This book will be of
value to anyone with an interest in French literature.
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zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
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The Greek Girl's Story (Paperback)
Abbe Prevost; Translated by Alan J Singerman; Foreword by Jean Sgard
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With The Greek Girl's Story, Alan Singerman presents the first
reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbe
Prevost's 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.
The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman's
1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called "arguably the most
valuable critical edition" of Prevost's novel to date. This new
edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a
substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all
significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into
account recent scholarship on this work and providing some
additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prevost's
roman a clef is based on a true story involving the French
ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated
from the ambassador's viewpoint and is a model of subjective,
unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably
modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as
the truth about the heroine can never be established with
certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between
the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Theophe, whom
he frees from a pasha's harem. While her benefactor becomes
increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover,
the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a
virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father
figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly
rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the
young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone
else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior
to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion.
His investigations are fruitless, however, and Theophe, the victim
of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions
about her behavior unanswered.
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