Nuns

Author: (French) Denis Diderot
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: The same evil can be a test from God or an temptation from the devil, which I find incredible. I didn’t sleep for a night, sitting on the bed, asking God for help. I raised my hands to heaven, wanting the heavens to witness the cruelty inflicted upon me. Eighteenth-century French genius writer Denis Diderot, bare the dark side of the convent, boldly depicts a novel during the French Enlightenment movement that claims to be based on humanism. Eighteenth-century French Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot, one of the main requirements for the novel was that the novel must be realistic. And this clearly anti-convent novel can also give a glimpse of the ideology at the time of the French Revolution. Because of a prank, Denis Diderot pretended to be a nun in real life, but he unexpectedly turned a series of moving letters into one of the flesh and blood of this novella. Regardless of how the real and the imaginary interpenetrate and weave between reality and literature, this novel has sparked debates among literary scholars in different centuries. The humanism and humanitarian appeal in the work also have an epoch-making significance. They had to do this, so that several thousand dollars could fall into the convent’s treasury. For this important purpose, they spent their lives lying, pushing innocent young women into the fire. Forty years, fifty years, or even a lifetime.