Memoirs of a Nun

By Denis Diderot, P N Furbank & Francis Birrell

Memoirs of a Nun - Denis Diderot, P N Furbank & Francis Birrell
  • Release Date: 1992-06-30
  • Genre: Literary Fiction

Description

Memoirs of a Nun, 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 brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.