by Madame de La Fayette · Ultraletters · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782390300106
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«La Princesse de Clèves» is the classic novel by Madame de La Fayette, published by Ultraletters in paperback, with 164 pages, in French.
The novel, published anonymously in 1678, is set in the court of the Valois and follows a young married noblewoman torn between her conjugal duties and a forbidden passion. It combines the historical framework with the characters' introspection and is a landmark of the analytical novel and of the female role in seventeenth-century literature.
Third volume of Ultraletters' Classiques français collection; the present edition was published in 2017.
For those interested in the origins of the psychological novel and in seventeenth-century literature.
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.
