Klicka på en bild för att gå till Google Book Search.
|
Laddar... Les Bijoux indiscrets (urspr publ 1748; utgåvan 2010)av Denis Diderot (Författare), Catriona Seth (Sous la direction de), Claude Blum (Sous la direction de), Caroline Jacot Grapa (Commentaires)
VerksinformationThe Indiscreet Jewels av Denis Diderot (Author) (1748)
   Erotic Fiction (41)
 wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |   Juanance | Jun 13, 2019 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i förlagsserien
"Philosopher, critic, novelist, and editor of the monumental Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the eighteenth century's most influential and provocative figures. For the first time complete in English translation, The Indiscreet Jewels is the earliest and, perhaps, most daring of Diderot's "philosophical" novels - a fearessly libertine fable on the order of such ribald classics as Boccaccio and Rabelais."--BOOK JACKET. "Published in 1748, with three chapters added later in the author's career, this extraordinary fiction is a take-off on the erotic-oriental tales popular at the time. Set in a sultan's court in the Congo, the novel begins with Mangogul (the Sultan) suffering from acute boredom, only to be rescued by a genie offering the potentate a magic ring that, when pointed at women, causes their genitals, or "jewels," to speak. The resulting story, exuberant and delightful in its wit and satire, was so openly irreverent and critical of the French Court at Versailles - with the Sultan as Louis XV and his favorite as Mme de Pompadour - that it secured its author some egregious trouble with the Parisian authorities."--BOOK JACKET. "But The Indiscreet Jewels is far from being just a political roman a clef. The Sultan's "scientific method" reveals an allegory of the female body, perennially silent, at last recovering its voice and daring to speak. What the "jewels" say is at once a parody and supreme example of the French Enlightenment's urge to seek knowledge above and beyond the hypocrisies, inhibitions, and limitations of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.5Literature French French fiction 18th century 1715–89Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.55)
Är det här du? |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diderot - The Indiscreet Jewels
1
Well that made me laugh quite a bit. An 18th century comedy/satire. It features Mangogul king of Congo, loosely based on *Charles II, who asks his wizard for something that will make women tell him the truth.
He receives a magic ring that causes vagina's to speak because that apparently is the only honest part of a woman... ok so not the most pc thing in the world ;) . Surprisingly though i didn't find it as sexist as i thought i would. The author is at times quite moderate, he tends to present multiple viewpoints and mock either extreme.
There's a lot of witty banter and the writing style is a highlight for me. There are some downsides in that some of the humour is definitely topical and doesn't hold up, but i laughed a lot more reading this than [b:Don Quixote|3836|Don Quixote|Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1364958765s/3836.jpg|121842] or [b:Gargantua and Pantagruel|18266|Gargantua and Pantagruel|François Rabelais|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1336964698s/18266.jpg|2663468].
There's also some hilariously subtle filth. On at least a few occasions it took me a minute to parse the language and found something very naughty, and for each of those i spotted i imagine a few more probably snuck past me.
The first volume is better than the second, it almost approaches sci-fi, as people know about the talking vagina phenomenon but don't know the cause. Which leads to all sorts of different effects on society.
The scientists, philosophers and priests all have theories, people start selling vagina muzzles to shut them up etc.
The second volume is a bit more hit and miss, there are various discussions of art and other subjects but it starts to feel a bit repetitive and ultimately you find there was never any great over-arcing plot. It just sort of ends.
Still, if you can parse the Ye Olde language this is quite a fun one.
Edit: *King Louis XV not Charles II, i don't know where i got that from. (