The Nun
Oxford World’s Classics
Diderot’s The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation includes Diderot’s all-important prefatory material.
FC; DSK; DSBD
FIC
Denis Diderot, Russell Goulbourne (Lecturer in French, University of Leeds) – Oxford University Press