by Prosper Mérimée · Naprijed Zgb. Ed. Amor · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422621423
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«Carmen» is the novella by Prosper Mérimée, published by Naprijed Zgb. Ed. Amor in hardback.
Set in Spain, the novella recounts the encounter between José, a soldier, and Carmen, a free-spirited and magnetic gypsy. The attraction she arouses in him plunges him into a relationship marked by passion, jealousy and transgression, while the protagonist lives on the margins of social conventions.
The work first appeared in 1845; this particular edition is from 1986.
A classic for readers interested in nineteenth-century fiction and in the great female characters of literature.
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
