Manon Lescaut

This is a novel that puts me in the not completely unfamiliar position of attempting to balance my extreme distaste for the narrator - and even for his story - against my admiration for the way the story is told. Let's get the aggravations out of the way: objections so strong, they caused me to put......more

Montaigne said the more things change the more things stay the same and this short novel published in 1731 proves that the madness that comes along with first love/infatuation is common to teenagers of whatever era. Chevalier des Grieux is the 18 year old son of a wealthy influential father sees 15 y......more

le personnage principal est VRMT insupportable, l’histoire elle est aléatoire ptn jsuis désolé, 300 pages d’évènements random qui font pas avancer l’histoire (tout ça pr que au final le type retourne en france comme si de rien n’était??) bref tiberge force......more

"Afirmen que las delicias del amor son pasajeras, que están prohibidas, que serán seguidas de penas eternas y que, cuanto más dulces y sabrosas sean, mayor será la magnanimidad del Cielo al recompensar tan gran sacrificio; pero confiesen que con corazones como los nuestros aquí abajo constituyen la......more