Lettres completes

by Heloise, Pierre Abelard, edited by Octave Greard

Book cover: Lettres completes

Extent: 281 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Textes litteraires du Moyen Age

Series volume number: 1

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2010)

ISBN: 9782812401404

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $37.00

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Hardback (Published)

(January 2024)

ISBN: 9782406161233

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $98.00

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L’Histoire des malheurs d’Abelard, adressee a un ami is a master work of narration and psychological analysis. This letter is the point of origin of the correspondence between Heloise and Abelard, which, nearly a millennium on, continues to strike a powerful chord with readers. Between its lines, a dialogue unfolds-on one hand a woman, unwaveringly passionate and bold in the description of her torments, haunted by the act of surrendering herself completely; and on the other, a man of the cloth, whose human passion is long gone, entirely transmuted into a spiritual love to which he seeks to convert Heloise.

  • By (author) Pierre Abelard
  • By (author) Heloise
  • Edited by Octave Greard