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Manon Lescaut

Antoine François Prévost

Hardcover | Pages: 253 pages

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Original Title:	Manon Lescaut
ISBN:	8020408746 (ISBN13: 9788020408747)
Edition Language:	Czech
Characters:	Manon Lescaut, Chevalier des Grieux
Setting:	Paris(France)

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Title	:	Manon Lescaut
Author	:	Antoine François Prévost
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	2001 by Mladá fronta (first published 1731)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. France. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Romance. Literature. 18th Century

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Wow, how do I start this? Because trying to collect my thoughts about this book is a bit like trying to collect body parts of a pedestrian smeared all over the road by a car. This is one train wreck of a book, because it doesn't work on any level - it fails to be a compelling story, it blows as a cautionary tale and it is most certainly is not a believable psychological portrait. But, as spectacular accidents do, it is weirdly fascinating to watch all the gruesome details while being repulsed by

This French literature classic, which has been the basis for several films and operas, is set in Paris and Louisiana in the early 1700s. Manon Lescaut is maintained by the Chevalier des Grieux until he begins to have financial problems. She is then kidnapped and sold.

Oh dear, what an escapade! Definitely Pre-Romantic, and therefore none of the characters' inner lives are present, so you are just told (repeatedly) how much Grieux and Manon love each other without ever understanding why. Which makes it very hard to sympathise at all with their ridiculous exploits!The character I feel most sorry for is Tiberge, who is apparently Grieux's best friend, but Grieux only ever goes to see him when he needs money!

I read this for my Opera and Literature class, as it is the basis for two operas. At first, I had great difficulty in feeling any sympathy for the Chévalier des Grieux, as he chases after Manon with a seemingly ridiculous amount of blindness: not only does he totally ruin his own reputation, he is forced to go begging to his friend Tiberge so that he can keep Manon in the opulence that she values even above him. I couldn't help but wonder how he could be so stupid-- at every turn there was

This is almost exclusively plot. Throughout, I was reminded of a quote from Balzac's The Muse of the Department Formerly all that was expected of a romance was that it should be interesting. As to style, no one cared for that, not even the author; as to ideas -- zero; as to local color -- non est. By degrees the reader has demanded style, interest, pathos, and complete information; he insists on the five literary senses - Invention, Style, Thought, Learning, and Feeling.To be fair, there is a

High-born teen boy falls in love at first sight with a lower class teenage girl about to enter the monastery so they run away together. Chevalier des Grieux and his lover, Manon Lescaut, are in Paris and they have expensive tastes, but no money and no desire to get a job.... Things do not go well. Shocker (T_T)More failures to build a functioning relationship follow. The fact that this book is told exclusively through des Grieux's persepctive makes it difficult to understand why this novel is

High-born teen boy falls in love at first sight with a lower class teenage girl about to enter the monastery so they run away together. Chevalier des Grieux and his lover, Manon Lescaut, are in Paris and they have expensive tastes, but no money and no desire to get a job.... Things do not go well. Shocker (T_T)More failures to build a functioning relationship follow. The fact that this book is told exclusively through des Grieux's persepctive makes it difficult to understand why this novel is