Free eBooks Ourika: The Original French Text (Texts And Translations) (French Edition) Available To Downloads
Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her conscious of her race--and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on, Ourika lives her life not as a French woman but as a black woman who feels "cut off from the entire human race." As the Reign of Terror threatens her and her adoptive family, Ourika struggles with her unusual position as an educated African woman in eighteenth-century Europe.A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal, and became the subject of four contemporary plays. The work represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine; the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist; and, as John Fowles points out, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind."
File Size: 746 KB
Print Length: 45 pages
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America; First Edition edition (August 1, 2014)
Publication Date: August 1, 2014
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: French
ASIN: B013R5MC4Q
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Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Ourika is one of the first Western narratives ever to be told primarily from the perspective of an African, recently rediscovered from its relative obscurity. While Duras herself and her narrator are both white, the story is of the powerful tragedy of the life of a young black woman taken in by a rich French family in exile, and is mostly told by Ourika herself. While this synopsis sounded boring to me when I first picked the book up, I was instantly drawn in by the engaging language and highly emotional episodes of the heroine's unusual experience. At times I was actually moved to tears, despite my conscious resisitance. The character of Ourika is a three-dimensional gem of psychological strength, and her story is at once heartbreaking and hope-giving.This edition is also physically beautiful and printed on nice paper; a steal for what is sure to become a more popular classic in the years to come.
Je l'ai acheté pour une classe de la littérature classique, et, quand cet livre est bien écrit et un exemple parfait de la mouvement romanticisme, je ne l'aime pas, mais c'est à moi.
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