Histoire de Mme de La Pommeraye

Description

The Story of Madame de La Pommeraye - the most famous episode in Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (1796) - is a magnificent and cruel tale. It recounts the revenge of a betrayed woman, who cruelly makes her libertine lover pay for his lack of love by throwing a young prostitute at him as bait, with whom he falls madly in love despite himself. But in this terrible game of manipulation, no one is really who they seem to be...

A defence and illustration of women's freedom to take justice into their own hands, a plea for their emancipation, this text is also a superb portrait of an independent woman.