| Summary: | Entre pathétique édifiant et réalisme morbide, entre mysticisme et sadisme, Diderot a composé, selon son expression même, la plus effrayante satire des couvents. Il y dévoile les abus dans les couvents et le danger des vocations contraires. Edition accompagnée d'un dossier éclairant l'oeuvre.
The book which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brillliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.
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