Author : Jonathan Walsh
Release : 2001
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Abbé Prévost's Histoire D'une Grecque Moderne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abbé Prévost's Histoire D'une Grecque Moderne write by Jonathan Walsh. This book was released on 2001. Abbé Prévost's Histoire D'une Grecque Moderne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Histoire d'une Grecque moderne is a masterpiece of ambiguity. Through the narrator's own bias and hypocrisy and through his "doubles" in the story who mirror or contrast with his character, Abbe Prevost deflates the patriarchal figures of eighteenth-century European society. The Oriental heroine's quest for intellectual and physical autonomy challenges such traditional authority figures as the aristocratic hero/narrator, the European imperialist, the "philosophe," and the writer who reflect Western sexual and cultural prejudices. Like the other novels of Prevost's 1740 trilogy (and even to a greater extent than in "Manon Lescaut"), "La Greque moderne" conveys a disturbing moral pessimism and indeterminancy that, in the end, the heroine's courage and determination cannot overcome. In an age of skepticism and increasing individualism, "La Greque moderne" seems to question the existence of any trustworthy model of moral authority.