Memoirs of a Nun: Introduction by P. N. Furbank

Denis Diderot
Publisher: Everyman's Library
June 1 1992
EAN: 9780679413240
ISBN: 0679413243
Synopsis:

Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.