Le Paysan Parvenu - Paperback

by Marivaux (Author), Frederic Deloffre (Editor), Francoise Rubellin (Editor)

From the petty bourgeoisie to the nobility, where he faced the temptations of libertinage and money, Jacob reveals the trickery and hypocrisy of the social game. Marivaux's virtuosic writing makes social climbing a major theme of the modern novel, without the tragic dimension it takes on in the same era in Abbe Prevost.