Carmen

When the Basque dragoon Don Jose 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, Jose 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 Merimee''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 Merimee, 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.>

Product details

• Authors: Prosper Merimee, Prosper Mérimée
• Assisted by: Andrew Brown (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781847498977
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-897-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics 101 Pages
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / World Literature / France / 19th Century, French literature; classic; Prosper Mérimée; Carmen; Bizet