{"title":"Madame De Lafayette","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-princesa-de-cleves","title":"The Princess of Cleves","description":"Since its publication in 1687, The Princess of Clèves has never left the center of controversy. The central plot was common in French novels—a woman who marries for convenience without loving her husband (whom she nonetheless respects and is faithful to) falls in love with a seductive young nobleman. But Madame de Lafayette added a twist that sparked debate. Having lost her mother, the Princess of Clèves, in a moment of existential tension, places herself under her husband's protection and confesses her budding love to him. She soon regrets the confession. And the princess's sincerity backfires. All of Madame de Lafayette's heroines love outside of marriage. But the princess's confession, the novel's climactic scene, is so surprising that the Mercure Galant conducted a poll at the time among readers who found it inappropriate. Written in the 17th century but set a century earlier, The Princess of Clèves is set against the backdrop of the final years of the reign of Henry II. The historical framework is true, but the main characters are fictional. It is the first modern novel in French literature, and it is characteristically a psychological novel. Before Madame de Lafayette, characters ceased acting to analyze themselves. With The Princess of Clèves, analysis becomes a means of progression and the very substance of the narrative. Before her, novelists were grappling with the fundamental problem of \"novelistic time.\" She brought her first solution to the problem of time, so ingenious and powerful that it was still used many centuries later. Her analysis foreshadows Proust's through the considerable place given to jealousy, which is not an accident of love but arises with it. Each of her novels, of which The Princess of Cleves is the masterpiece and one of the great classics of world literature, begins with a picture of court intrigue, where so many different interests and cabals abounded, and women played such a significant role that \"love was always mixed with business, and business with love.\" The Princess of Cleves has a serialized rhythm, and its moral, contrary to the serials that later delighted readers in the 19th century, teaches that the hand that inflicts the wound is also the one that heals it.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174864634108,"sku":"9788501068965","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/44b6bd4ce0a952410baa4dff59ae6898.jpg?v=1778320287"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/madame-de-lafayette.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}