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Margarita de Navarra fue una mujer poco comun. De elevada cultura, con dotes e inquietudes intelectuales y artisticas, paso de los sentimientos misticos de su juventud a los atrevidos y picantes relatos de su madurez. En el Heptameron se funden sus preocupaciones religiosas y sus conocimientos literarios. Su mensaje moralizante viene arropado por una sucesion de relatos de pasatiempos, tragicos, sentimentales y criticos contra la vieja religion.… (más)
This review is from: The Heptameron (Classics) (Kindle Edition) Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre and set in mid-1500s Europe, this is an intriguing collection of seventy-two stories. With a similar framework to the Canterbury Tales and the Decameron, the narrators - five men and five women of noble background - are thrown together in an abbey in the Pyrenees following a flood. As they wait for a bridge to be built, they entertain themselves by telling (supposedly true) stories. These concern chaste - and faithless - husbands and wives, immoral monks, people who love to the death, people who seek revenge, incest...one is even about the horrid state of toilets in an abbey! A glimpse into the world and attitudes of the time. Each story is followed by the characters debating what they've just heard, and their personalities come out in their talk, from pious old Oisille and sensible Parlamente to the rather brutish Hircan who derides chaste heroes, and the misogynistic Saffredent. The modern translation makes this completely readable and I quite enjoyed it, though the stories are variable in quality, and I found seventy-two was quite enough! ( )
Thoughts...............The Heptameron, attributed to De Navarre, sister of Francois I, is a collection of 72 short stories told by a group of stranded travelers awaiting rescue. This is the premise used for retelling, possibly true, stories which were circulated by De Navarre and her medieval circle of friends concerning adulterous acquaintenances, leacherous friars and circumstances which are amusing and sometimes thought provoking. Mainly, the book is a living testament to life as it was lived in medieval France told by people who actually lived it. Voices from the grave, so to speak.
Would I recommend it...................yes, I was amused by many of the stories and liken the telling of them to having a group of friends join you for drinks around the bonfire and sharing incredulous stories which my either shock you or leave you laughing. ( )
The best known and most popular of the old tales told in the French language--virtually the first as it appears in written forms. And like so many cutting edge works, it is baudy. Margaret died in 1549. The collection was first published in 1558, in a highly-abridged version (censored to spare real personages?) Mal sur mal n'est pas sante.
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Am ersten Tag im September, um die Zeit, da die Bäder der Pyrenäen ihre wirksamste Heilkraft zu offenbaren beginnen, weilten in Cauderés etliche Kurgäste aus Frankreich wie aus Spanien, die einen, um sich hier einer Trinkkur zu unterziehen, die anderen, um Bäder zu nehmen, und wieder andere, um es mit Schlammpackungen zu versuchen ; ihre Heilkraft ist so wunderbar, daß Kranke, die von ihren Ärzten aufgegeben wurden, völlig geheilt von dort nach Hause zurückkehren.
(prologue) On the first day of September, when the springs of the Pyrenees are just beginning to be at their most potent, there were a number of people staying at the spa town of Cauterets.
(first story) In the town of Alencon, during the lifetime of the last Duke Charles, there was a procurator by the name of Saint-Aignan.
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"It's about death and it's about a monk. So please all listen carefully."
Margarita de Navarra fue una mujer poco comun. De elevada cultura, con dotes e inquietudes intelectuales y artisticas, paso de los sentimientos misticos de su juventud a los atrevidos y picantes relatos de su madurez. En el Heptameron se funden sus preocupaciones religiosas y sus conocimientos literarios. Su mensaje moralizante viene arropado por una sucesion de relatos de pasatiempos, tragicos, sentimentales y criticos contra la vieja religion.
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