Carmen

Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

At a glance Carmen frames a destructive love story inside travel narrative, anecdote, and criminal… Prosper Mérimée introduces the elusive Carmen as a woman who resists possession at every… The result is swift, unsettling, and far stranger than many adaptations suggest. Themes The novella explores freedom, erotic power, jealousy, projection, cultural…

The novella explores freedom, erotic power, jealousy, projection, cultural mythmaking, violence, and the fatal logic of possessiveness.