by Prosper Mérimée, Thierry Ozwald · Hachette Livre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010190759
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«Carmen» is the short novel by Prosper Mérimée and Thierry Ozwald, published by Hachette Livre in paperback (191 pages, in French).
The story presents Carmen, a gypsy of free and untamed character, with wild beauty and passionate temperament, who lives every moment without moral ties. Her figure as a femme fatale, given over entirely to love, overflows the categories of good and evil and turns every relationship into a passion as intense as it is destructive.
Complete edition from the Classiques Hachette collection, published in 1993, with the subtitle «texte intégral».
School edition for students of French and for those who wish to read this nineteenth-century classic in its original language.
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
