Valvèdre

by George Sand

Overview

C’est une histoire de souffrance humaine. Le personnage principal parle de sa souffrance dans l’enfance, qu’il a souffert. Il y avait même des jours, voire des semaines, quand il vivait, sans savoir où il se trouvait vraiment. Il est parfois utile de tirer les leçons des erreurs des autres et d’apprendre par eux-mêmes l’expérience et les enseignements précieux.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788382170924
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	06/06/2019
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	313
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years
Language:	French

About the Author

Françoise Massardier-Kenney is Professor of French and Director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. She is the coeditor (with Doris Y. Kadish) of Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783–1823 and author of Gender in the Fiction of George Sand.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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II

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IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

Last Part

Editorial Reviews

"…this welcome translation finally makes it possible to include Valvèdre alongside other major nineteenth-century French and European novels in comparative literature courses and research projects." — Forum for Modern Languages

"This is one of Sand's most important, yet unknown, novels that addresses questions still pertinent today regarding the responsibilities of husbands and wives in marriage, with emphasis on the negative effects on a woman of a patriarchal culture. It also deals with the need for balance in one's choices of a profession and lifestyle and shows the novelist at her most developed state, balancing romantic interest with ethical concerns. The translator has captured the fluid style of Sand and made accessible a nineteenth-century novel to a modern audience without losing its original flavor." — Thelma Jurgrau, editor and translator of Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

"There are only a few of Sand's novels available in English in a modern edition. There is nothing more compelling, it seems to me, than the advantage that this book would bring to curricula where a woman's text that speaks of women's issues is being sought." — David A. Powell, author of While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand

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