Madame Lafayette

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The Princesse de Cleves

Beschreibung

This translation of the novel "La Princesse de Cleves", originally written in 1678, tells of life at Court in 17th-century France.

Autor

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne was born in Paris in 1634. in 1656 she married the Comte de Lafayette, had two sons, and lived on his country estate. She then returned to Paris, and the couple remained largely separate from then on. She started a literary salon with her close friends Madame de Sevigne and the Duc de la Rochefoucauld. She also mixed in court circles and wrote a biography of her friend Henriette, wife of the Duc d'Orleans, after her death. She is mostly remembered for her novels. She died in 1693. Robin Buss is a writer and translator who works for theIndependent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He studied at the University of Paris, where he took a degree and a doctorate in French literature. He is part-author of the article 'French Literature' in Encyclopaedia Britannica and has published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He has also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• 8th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780140445879
• ISBN-10: 0140445870
• Artikelnr.: 22112610