by Madame de La Fayette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434580701
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«La princesa de Cleves» is the novel by Madame de La Fayette, published by Salvat Editores in paperback (173 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in the sixteenth-century French court and portrays the Princess of Clèves, married for convenience, who falls in love with another man and is torn between conjugal duty and passion. It is considered a precursor of the psychological novel and describes the social codes, honour and inner struggle of its characters.
The novel, originally published in 1678, is included in the Biblioteca Básica Salvat collection (number 67), with a foreword by Daniel Sueiro.
For those interested in seventeenth-century French fiction and in conflicts between desire and duty.
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
