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| Original Title: | L'Heptaméron |
| ISBN: | 014044355X (ISBN13: 9780140443554) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Marguerite de Navarre
Paperback | Pages: 544 pages Rating: 3.65 | 939 Users | 65 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Heptameron |
| Author | : | Marguerite de Navarre |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 544 pages |
| Published | : | February 23rd 1984 by Penguin Classics (first published 1542) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Historical. Medieval. Literature |
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In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.Rating Epithetical Books The Heptameron
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Part of my incentive for reading books like these for my own pleasure (this copy of mine, purchased at a library sale, has a sticker from being checked out of a college reserves for a Medieval and Romance class) is encountering this chunk of the canon on my own terms before some future class sinks its claws into it. I wouldn't say that all first meetings with a text that occur in a classroom are doomed (Hamlet in my senior year of high school is a prime example), but enough of my past has beenLecherous lords, fornicating friars and lascivious ladies.If you like the Canterbury Tales or the Decameron, youll love this book. Here we have ten toffs five women and five men trapped by floods in an abbey in the Pyrenees. While they wait a week or so for the peasants to rebuild a bridge back to their sumptuous palaces and chateaux, they entertain each other with stories, each person telling a story a day. Originally, they were to tell ten stories each over the course of ten days, but in
In the early sixteenth century, a group of nobles are gathered in a monastery, awaiting the repair of a bridge so they can return to the French court. They decide to pass the time telling tales, with the caveat that every tale told must be true, and must es with the question of whether women or men are more virtuous.Queen Marguerite de Navarre composed the stories, it is said, while lying in her litter, and based the story-tellers on members of her court. The prolog of this edition includes
"Is it better to speak or to die?" Marguerite de Navarre
A ravishing romp of courtly tales from 1500s France, a world where an unchivalrous manoeuvre could see you banished from the kingdom or sliced quarterwards like succulent salami. Across these 72 tales, wives are perpetually incapable of identifying their husbands from strangers in the sack, perennially scheming Franciscans contrive means of raping maidens and nuns, honest lovers spend their lives in chaste pursuit of madams sending more mixed signals than an epileptic crosswalk, and
Marguerite de Navarre was the sister of Francis I of France and so was the grandmother of Henri de Navarre, and the great-aunt of Marguerite, better known as 'la reine Margot' from the Dumas novel and far more fabulous film.Although her authorship is disputed, the Heptameron is usually attributed to her, and first appeared in print in the mid-1500s. Inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron, this uses a similar framework of a group of noble French men and women trapped and taking refuge in a flood:
Read it at uni - I remember I didn't entirely hate it. I enjoyed the idea of 10 people sat around a comforting fire sharing their stories, it was like having a little invitation to a private audience!
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