Manon Lescaut, English Edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
The story of Manon Lescaut is a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from eighteenth-century Paris - with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses - via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement among the treeless...
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The story of Manon Lescaut is a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from eighteenth-century Paris - with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses - via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement among the treeless waste of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were published in the edition of
1753.
1753.
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'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment'So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris - with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses - via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless waste of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or
a thoroughly modern woman? Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion.
This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prévost and first published in the edition of 1753.
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Autoren-Porträt von Abbé Prévost
Abbé Prévost (1697-1763) floh als Benediktiner-Novize vor einem Haftbefehl nach England und Holland. In Utrecht lernte er die Kurtisane Lenki Eckhardt kennen ihre gemeinsame Zeit weist viele Parallelen zu 'Manon Lescaut' auf. 1735 kehrte Prévost heimlich nach Frankreich zurück, später wurde er Hauspfarrer des Fürsten von Conti und dessen Protégé.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Abbé Prévost
- 2008, 208 Seiten, Maße: 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzung: Scholar, Angela
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199554927
- ISBN-13: 9780199554928
Sprache:
Englisch
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