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Carmen
Carmen | Prosper Merimee
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The novella that was the basis for perhaps the most popular opera of all time, Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is the swashbuckling story of a nineteenth-century Spanish soldier who deserts his post to pursue the fiery gypsy beauty, Carmen—who is as brave as she is fickle. The opera’s plot, it turns out, is based only on part of the larger adventure that is Carmen. The story opens, for example, with the narrator, a historian like Mérimée, researching the lost site of an ancient Roman battle on the plains of Andalusia, when he meets a notorious bandit, Don José Navarro, on the run from the law. Feeling a certain sympathy for Don José, whose face is “at once noble and fierce,” and a vicarious thrill at this brush with danger, he helps the bandit to escape. When they next meet again, Don José is in jail in Cordova, due to be hanged for his crimes. In his last days, he tells the narrator about a wild gypsy woman he met back in Seville . . . What follows is an iconic and highly entertaining tale of doomed passion full of chases, sword fights, bullfights, smuggling, wild dancing, and more—except no mezzo-sopranos. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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JackOBotts
Carmen | Prosper Merimee
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Mehso-so

Okay novella…admittedly I‘m unfamiliar with the opera. But I am happy to me moving through the Art of the Novella series, thanks to #bookspin (this is my September pick).

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Iceangel9
Carmen | Prosper Merimee
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Pickpick

Really enjoyed this small classic, if you loved the opera or ballet you need to read the novella.

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Decayy
Carmen | Prosper Merimee
Mehso-so

Nice novella. It was refreshing to read something short. Off to Where Angels Fear to Tread.

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carmens.library
Carmen | Prosper Merimee
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