by Mariana Alcoforado · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422682233
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«Cartas de amor de la monja portuguesa» is the epistolary classic by Mariana Alcoforado, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (139 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together five letters that Mariana Alcoforado, a nun from the convent of Beja, addresses to the Count of Chamilly, a French officer, after their separation. They alternate passionate devotion, jealousy, reproach and despair; their intensity has made them a landmark of epistolary literature, although the true authorship remains disputed.
Translation and prologue by Carmen Martín Gaite, with an epilogue by Emilia Pardo Bazán. Originally published as «Lettres portugaises traduites en français».
For readers of European classics and tragic love stories; it will also interest those studying seventeenth-century epistolary literature.
