Corinne (novel)
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Corinne ou l'Italie is a French novel by Madame de Staël, first published in 1807. Its English language title is Corinne. It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of forbidden books by the catholic church.
- From the date of its publication in 1807, Germaine de Staël 's Corinne, ou l'Italie was an enormous success. Between 1807 and 1810, fourteen editions or pirated versions of it were issued in France, England, Switzerland and Germany. Following Corinne's publication in French in 1807, two competing translations of the novel swiftly appeared in Britain, both in 1807. The first, Corinna, or Italy, in three volumes, was translated anonymously. The second, with exactly the same title, was in five volumes and translated by Dennis Lawler. Both early translations respected the sense of Staël's original title choice, retaining Staël's interesting and complex choice of conjunction. As Marie-Claude Vallois has argued, "Corinne ou l'Italie" does not signify a choice between Corinne and Italy: the conjunction works as a copula or colon, "Corinne et l'Italie" or "Corinne: l'Italie" (Vallois, 1987: p.131). The title suggests that to know the character Corinne is to know her chosen homeland, Italy. Only two years later, this acknowledgement was parodically rejected in the 1809 anonymously-published satire The Corinna of England in which Corinna is no longer equal but subordinate to her country. [1] [Apr 2007]
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