An edition of Le diable amoureux (1772)

The devil in love

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An edition of Le diable amoureux (1772)

The devil in love

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One evening in the carnivalesque world of eighteenth-century Naples a foolhardy young Spaniard, don Alvaro de Maravillas, plays the daredevil - literally - and summons the Evil One himself. Never one to miss his appointments, the Demon appears, assuming various guises before setting into the form of a charming young servant boy who turns out to be a girl. Resorting to the most human of wiles to try to win the young nobleman's affections, the Devil, as the lovely Biondetta, then lulls don Alvaro into thinking that her needs are the same as those of any other tearful young woman, and proceeds to take him for the ride of his life through Venice and back to his home in Spain. This new, annotated edition, the first modern English translation of Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (1772), marks the long-awaited appearance of one of the earliest masterpieces of modern fantastic prose. A moral fable of delightful grace and narrative skill, Cazotte's 1772 novel will prove, on a par with Lewis's The Monk, a seminal work for the supernaturalist tradition and an important precursor of the French Romantics and Symbolists. Yet The Devil in Love reaches beyond, as its sophisticated play of gender shifts transforms a chronicle of fatal attraction into an ironic commentary on social and psychological mores. Gerard de Nerval's 1845 text, Jacques Cazotte: His Life, Trial, Prophecies, and Revelations, is presented as an afterword to this edition. Nerval, himself one of the most extraordinary figures in French literature, lends an intriguing appreciation of Cazotte, part biography, part literary study, and part hermetic treatise.

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Publisher
Marsilio
Language
English
Pages
201

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Le Diable amoureux
Le Diable amoureux
August 27, 2002, Mille et Une Nuits, Fayard/Mille et une nuits
Mass Market Paperback
Cover of: Le diable amoureux
Le diable amoureux
2001, Maxi-livres
in French
Cover of: Diable Amoreux, Le
Diable Amoreux, Le
February 1995, 84 Editions
Hardcover in Spanish
Cover of: The devil in love
The devil in love
1993, Marsilio
in English
Cover of: The Devil in Love (European Classics)
The Devil in Love (European Classics)
July 3, 1990, Dedalus Ltd, Hippocrene Books, Dedalus Books Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: Der verliebte Teufel
Der verliebte Teufel: e. span. Novelle
1982, Winkler
in German
Cover of: The devil in love
The devil in love
1925, Houghton Mifflin company
in English
Cover of: Le diable amoureux
Cover of: Le diable amoureux
Le diable amoureux
1883, Librairie des Bibliophiles
in French
Cover of: Le diable amoureux
Cover of: Le diable amoureux

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201).

Published in
New York
Series
Marsilio classics
Other Titles
Jacques Cazotte., Revelations.

Classifications

Library of Congress
P85.J3 A3 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 201 p. :
Number of pages
201

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18075324M
ISBN 10
0941419789, 0941419797
OCLC/WorldCat
31128708, 39611984
Library Thing
450810
Goodreads
252658
1610110

Work Description

The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman named Don Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections.

French critic P.G. Castex has described The Devil In Love as "the very initiator of the modern fantasy story".

Canadian critic Carlo Testa has described The Devil In Love (in review of Stephen Sartarelli's 1993 translation) as a "terminus a quo" in the history of the demonic subgenre".

The Le Diable amoureux started a literary style known as fantastique, where surreal events intrude on reality and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely the product of the character's imagination.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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