Memoirs of a Nun - Hardcover

Diderot, Denis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857150902 ISBN 13: 9781857150902

Publisher: Everyman, 1992

Synopsis

Together with Voltaire, Diderot was a remarkable figure of the French Enlightenment, as a philosopher, journalist and novelist. In this book, a young girl's enforced enclosure in a convent gives Diderot the chance to explore themes such as religious hypocrisy and sexual repression.

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About the Author:

Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713, the son of a master cutler. He was originally destined for the Church but rebelled and persuaded his father to allow him to complete his education in Paris, where he graduated in 1732. For ten years Diderot was nominally a law student, but actually led a precarious bohemian but studious existence, eked out with tutoring, hack-writing and translating. His original writing began in 1746 with a number of scientific works setting out the materialist philosophy which he was to hold throughout his life. Along with his editorship of the"Encyclopedie"(1747-73), he wrote works on mathematics, medicine, the life sciences, economics, drama and painting, two plays and a novel, as well as his"Salons"(1759-81). His political writings were mainly composed around 1774 for Catherine II, at whose invitation he went to St. Petersburg. Diderot's astonishingly wide range of interests, together with his growing prediliction for the dialogue form, led to the production of his most famous works: "D'Alembert's Dream, The Paradox of the Actor, Jacques the Fatalist"and"Rameau's Nephew." During the latter part of his life Diderot received a generous pension from Catherine II, in return for which he bequeathed her his library and manuscripts. He died in 1784."

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1857150902
• ISBN 13: 9781857150902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320