Product Description

This critical edition of Francoise Pascal's epistolary collection "Le Commerce du Parnasse" (Paris, 1669) highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer virtually unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Composed of letters in prose and verse, this is part gallant correspondence, part poetry collection, part epistolary novel. It provides insights into 17th-century salon life and the discourses of "galanterie" and "preciosite". The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1072401 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 49 pages

Review
"This collection of letters (apparently a genuine correspondence) between Franoise Pascal and various acquaintances provides what is no doubt a faithful reflection of the tone of conversation and poetry produced in salon groups during the second half of the seventeenth century . . . the work takes a while to get into, but it amply repays the reader's attention . . . The useful introduction gives biographical information about Franoise Pascal, explains what is historically significant about this collection, and pinpoints the feminist component of her thought." -Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. 29, No. 56, 2002