Prosper Merimee

Kirjan Prosper Merimee (2003) on kirjoittanut Prosper Merimee. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 204 sivua ja se on nidottu.

On a remote, fortified homestead in the Andes, a ferocious overlord attempts to rape his daughter and subsequently murders her. In a convent school in Havana, two adolescent girls fall in love with their priest, with fatal consequences. In Spain, a nobleman marries a village girl and an ideal of social equality collides with life's brutal realities. And in Lima, a beautiful and clever actress bamboozles her lover, the governor of Peru. Prosper Merimee, best remembered for his creation of "Carmen," wrote these plays - three of them powerfully tragic and the other a delicious comedy - in his late twenties, at the height of his creative powers. They are brought together in this volume in superbly stageworthy translations, preceded by a thorough introduction to Merimee's unjustly neglected body of dramatic works. "