Nuns, the nephew of Lamont

Author: Denis Diderot
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Publish Date: 1998-07-01
Features: "The Nun" and "The Uncle" are two outstanding novels by Denis Diderot, the great 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker. "The Nun" tells a tragic story. The innocent young girl Suzanne Simonin, who harbors beautiful ideals about life, is forced by her family to take vows as a nun and suffers various physical and mental tortures in the convent. Her unfortunate fate exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty of religious cloistered life. The dialogue novel "The Uncle" is a shocking work that, through the words of the licentious and shameless character "The Uncle," reveals the corruption of high society and puts forward some original insights on issues such as morality, art, and others.