Name: Spiridion (in French)
Price: 720.00 TWD
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Author: George Sand
ISBN: 9781518774355

Type

Physical Book

Author

George Sand

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

230

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781518774355

Synopsis "Spiridion (in French)"

Both Gothic and philosophical, "Spiridion" tells the story of a young novice, Angel, who finds himself cruelly ostracized by his monastic superiors and terrified by the ghostly visits of his monastery s founder, the abbot Spiridion. Though he founded the monastery on the search for truth, Spiridion watched his once intelligent and virtuous monks degenerate into a cruel, mindless community. Turning away from the Church and withdrawing into his cell, he poured his energy into a manuscript that tells the truth about Roman Catholic doctrine and monastic life and provides a vision of a new and eternal gospel. The manuscript was buried with him, and his spirit now searches for a monk who is intelligent enough to exhume it from his crypt, which is guarded by hellish spirits, and share its vision with the world. Translated into English for the first time in more than 160 years, "Spiridion" offers a fierce critique of Catholic doctrine as well as solutions for living with the Church s teachings. Although Sand had broken with the Church several years earlier, she nevertheless continued to believe in an omnipotent God, and her novel makes the distinction, as Angel s protector, Father Alexis, puts it, between the authority of faith and the application of this authority in the hands of men. As translator Patricia J. F. Worth argues in her introduction, the novel s emphasis on freedom of inquiry, benevolence, and moral reform inspired other nineteenth-century writers, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Matthew Arnold, and Henry James, and the novel is also relevant to twenty-first-century discussions of religious authority and rigid adherence to doctrine."

George Sand

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George Sand, nacida Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin en 1804 en París, fue una escritora francesa emblemática del Romanticismo. Adoptó un nombre masculino para firmar sus obras y vistió ropa de hombre, desafiando las convenciones sociales de su época y ganándose un lugar en un mundo literario dominado por hombres.

Creció en la finca familiar de Nohant, donde desarrolló un profundo amor por la vida rural, que se reflejaría en muchas de sus novelas. Después de un matrimonio que terminó en separación, se trasladó a París para dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Su primera novela importante, Indiana, abordó temas como la opresión femenina y la búsqueda de libertad, marcando el inicio de una prolífica carrera.

A lo largo de su vida escribió decenas de novelas, ensayos, memorias y cartas, convirtiéndose en una de las voces más influyentes y polémicas del siglo XIX. Además de su obra literaria, George Sand fue una activista comprometida con causas sociales, como los derechos de las mujeres y la justicia social.

Su casa en Nohant fue un centro cultural donde acogió a importantes artistas y escritores de su tiempo. George Sand falleció en 1876, dejando un legado duradero como pionera de la literatura y la lucha por la igualdad.

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