Stendhal: The Abbess of Castro
The Abbess of Castro
Buch
- Melville House Publishing, 08/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781612193205
- Bestellnummer: 3881979
- Umfang: 144 Seiten
- Gewicht: 152 g
- Maße: 178 x 127 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.8.2014
- Serie: Art of the Novella
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Brigands, convents under siege, a prince who'd do Machiavelli proud . . . This adventurous novella from a writer famous for far longer works is a singular take on love and war in Renaissance Italy.Claiming to be translating from sixteenth-century manuscripts, Stendhal tells the story of two doomed young lovers-one the daughter of the wealthiest man in the district, the other a brigand. It's a genuinely moving tale of impossible love-with plenty of swordfights thrown in-that's unique in Stendhal's oeuvre, not least in its portrait of an intelligent woman who, ill-starred in love, turns to worldly power. There's also some sparkling analysis of the conditions that produced the great art of the Renaissance.
But The Abbess of Castro-first published in the same year as Stendhal's novel The Charterhouse of Parma-is also characterized by themes that pervade his longer novels: political and familial machinations, a profoundly unsentimental view of war, ambitious individuals undone by passion.
Never before available as a standalone edition, the novella is a powerful dose of the writer at the peak of his skills.