Description
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.Author: Prosper Mérimée
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 06/20/2023
Pages: 101
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781847498977
ISBN10: 1847498973
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance | General
About the Author
Well-versed in European languages and an archaeologist by profession, Prosper Mérimée (1803-70) wrote stories and novellas which displayed his concern for historical accuracy and his fascination for foreign places.