The Nun by Denis Diderot

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The Nun by Denis Diderot

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Summary

Presents the true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. Mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, this novel gives an insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent.

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The Nun by Denis Diderot

'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 success 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.

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ISBN 13 9780192804303
ISBN 10 0192804308
Title The Nun
Author Denis Diderot
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2005-07-01
Number of pages 234
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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