by Prosper Mérimée · Fascículos Planeta, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475511535
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«Carmen» is the novel by Prosper Mérimée published by Planeta in hardback (185 pages, in Spanish).
In nineteenth-century Spain, José Navarro, an exemplary soldier, sees his life change when he meets Carmen, a gypsy cigarette girl of magnetic beauty and free spirit. The passion she provokes drags him toward desire, jealousy, and self-destruction. The work's universal fame came with Bizet's opera and its numerous film adaptations.
1984 edition, number 23 of the Grandes Novelas de Amor de la Literatura Universal collection, with translations by Manuel Serrat and Julián Sousa.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and tragic romances, as well as for followers of Bizet's opera who want to read the original story.
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.
