Lettres completes
by Heloise, Pierre Abelard, edited by Octave Greard
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(July 2010)
ISBN: 9782812401404
8.62 x 5.94 inches
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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.
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 Abélard
- By (author) Heloise
- Edited by Octave Gréard
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