The Devil in Love: Followed by Jacques Cazotte : His Life, Trial, Prophecies, and Revelations

One evening in the carnivalesque world of eighteenth-century Naples a foolhardy young Spaniard, don Alvaro de Maravillas, plays the daredevil - literally - and summons the Evil One himself. Never one to miss his appointments, the Demon appears, assuming various guises before setting into the form of a charming young servant boy who turns out to be a girl. Resorting to the most human of wiles to try to win the young nobleman's affections, the Devil, as the lovely Biondetta, then lulls don Alvaro into thinking that her needs are the same as those of any other tearful young woman, and proceeds to take him for the ride of his life through Venice and back to his home in Spain. This new, annotated edition, the first modern English translation of Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (1772), marks the long-awaited appearance of one of the earliest masterpieces of modern fantastic prose. A moral fable of delightful grace and narrative skill, Cazotte's 1772 novel will prove, on a par with Lewis's The Monk, a seminal work for the supernaturalist tradition and an important precursor of the French Romantics and Symbolists. Yet The Devil in Love reaches beyond, as its sophisticated play of gender shifts transforms a chronicle of fatal attraction into an ironic commentary on social and psychological mores. Gerard de Nerval's 1845 text, Jacques Cazotte: His Life, Trial, Prophecies, and Revelations, is presented as an afterword to this edition. Nerval, himself one of the most extraordinary figures in French literature, lends an intriguing appreciation of Cazotte, part biography, part literary study, and part hermetic treatise.

Literature & Fiction

Nerval, Gérard De

Cazotte, Jacques

Sartarelli, Stephen

World Literature

Marsilio Pub

early fantasy masterpiece, tr Stephen Sartarelli

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Ollivier V1-2: Poeme (1763)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Ollivier: Poeme

Kessinger Pub

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Oeuvres Badines Et Morales De Monsieur Cazotte V1 (1788)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Oeuvres Badines Et Morales De Monsieur Cazotte V6 (1788) (French Edition)

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Œuvres badines et morales de Cazotte. Nouvelle édition. Volume 3 of 3 (French Edition)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

Œuvres badines et morales de Cazotte. Nouvelle édition. Volume 2 of 3 (French Edition)

Œuvres badines et morales de Cazotte. Nouvelle édition. Volume 1 of 3 (French Edition)

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