Prinsessan de Clèves är ett erkänt banbrytande, modernt verk.
Frankrikes president Nicolas Sarkozy uttalade sig många gånger förklenande om Mme de Lafayettes klassiska kärleksroman Prinsessan de Clèves från 1678. Med den måste man dra gränsen för vad en vanlig människa idag [...]
Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared - anonymously - in 1678 in the heyday of French classicism, it aroused fierce cont[...]
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of Thomas Sargent Perry's 1892 translation, indisputably the translation that has best served readers in English. Reprinted repeatedly over the last one hundred years, the Perry translation is a classic in its own right. After careful review, the edit[...]