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100 1 $aCazotte, Jacques,$d1719-1792.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82079701
240 10 $aDiable amoureux.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe devil in love /$cJacques Cazotte ; followed by, Jacques Cazotte : his life, trial, prophecies, and revelations by Gérard de Nerval ; translated and with a preface by Stephen Sartarelli.
260 $aNew York :$bMarsilio,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $axvii, 201 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aMarsilio classico
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-201).
520 $aOne 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.
520 8 $aResorting 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.
520 8 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aYet 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.
520 8 $aGerard 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.
700 1 $aSartarelli, Stephen,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88191196
700 12 $aCazotte, Jacques,$d1719-1792.$tRévélations.$lEnglish.$f1993.
700 12 $aNerval, Gérard de,$d1808-1855.$tJacques Cazotte.$lEnglish.$f1993.
740 0 $aJacques Cazotte.
740 0 $aRevelations.
830 0 $aMarsilio classico.
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