Lettres portugaises by vicomte de Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues

"Lettres portugaises" by vicomte de Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues is an epistolary work published anonymously in 1669. Five passionate letters form a monologue of love, moving through stages of faith, doubt, and despair toward a tragic conclusion. Initially believed to be authentic correspondence from a Portuguese nun to her French lover, the work became a European sensation with numerous editions and translations. Its emotional intensity established a precedent for sentimentalism in European literature and influenced the development of the sentimental and epistolary novel genres. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne, vicomte de, 1628-1685
Dubious author Alcoforado, Mariana, 1640-1723
Editor Piedagnel, Alexandre, 1831-1903
LoC No. 01018613
Title Lettres portugaises
Publiées sur l'édition originale avec une notice préliminaire par Alexandre Piedagnel
Note Traditionally ascribed to M. Alcoforado, these letters are now attributed to Guilleragues.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_a_Portuguese_Nun
Credits René Galluvot (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Epistolary fiction
Subject Alcoforado, Mariana, 1640-1723 -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 66978
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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