Manon Lescaut - Brossura

Prevost, Abbe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1873982771 ISBN 13: 9781873982778

Casa editrice: Dedalus Ltd, 2001

Riassunto

The young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's "femmes fatales".

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Recensione:

Manon is the perfidious object of the Chevalier des Grieux's affections. She betrays him; his love for her threatens his every moral tenet, yet he clings to a belief in the redemptive power of love. Manon Lescaut is both operatic high tragedy and picaresque adventure. As Larkin's introduction emphasises, the ambiguity of the Jesuitical Des Grieux means that this love is far from innocent, and an enduring puzzle. --Isobel Montgomery in The Guardian

The tragic love story Manon Lescaut has been the model for operas (by Puccini, Massenet and Henze) and films for years. This French classic by Abbe Prevost, retranslated for the first time in 52 years by Steve Larkin, shows remarkable resiliency more than 200 years after its original publication. Set in Paris and Louisiana around 1720, it is the archetypal 18th - century romance, with the noble des Grieux as devoted lover and the worldly Manon as inconstant mistress." --Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Abbe Prevost (1697-1763) had a very eventful life, including a spell in an English prison for forgery. At one time soldier, priest, Protestant convert, he was also a journalist, pamphleteer, translator of Richardson's novels and in his declining years a hack writer. All of his prolific output of novels, biographies and histories has long since been forgotten, with the exception of Manon Lescaut, his masterpiece.

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• Editore: Dedalus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1873982771
• ISBN 13: 9781873982778
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 182