EAN: 9781847498977

CARMEN - PROSPER MÉRIMÉE TASCHENBUCH

When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding  he is
immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps
her to flee  he is imprisoned and demoted  but she repays him at their next meeting with a day
of excess and a night of love. As Carmen continues to exert her spell  José is dragged further
and further into a seedy world of smugglers  robbers  fiery passions and uncontrollable
jealousy - one that he will find difficult to escape alive. Carmen  the archetype of the amoral
femme fatale  is Prosper Mérimée's highest creation  and a model for many subsequent literary
heroines. First published in 1846  this story of crime and desire - here accompanied by another
famous novella by Mérimée  The Venus of Ille - has been adapted into a number of dramatic works
including the famous 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet.

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