Heptameron
The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories by Queen Margaret of Navarre (1492–1549). It is based on the model of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio as a framework narrative and was originally designed for a hundred novellas, which - as in the Decameron - were to be told in ten days, but until Margaret's death it had only progressed to the second narration on the eighth day .
The collection was published in 1558 under the title Histoires des amans fortunez by Pierre Boaistuau , who, however, had changed the work considerably. He took up only 67 stories, shortened many and also left out essential passages in the connecting parts of the frame story. Eventually, he regrouped narratives so that the context the author intended was destroyed.
The edition by Claude Gruget , which appeared in 1559, largely restored the original form and gave the collection the title Heptaméron for the first time .
The main theme of the work is amorous and sexual entanglements. Marguerite's claim that the stories are entirely based on facts is original, as is her idea of having the narrators discuss their morals after each novel. These discussions seemed a little artificial to Montaigne .
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- The heptameron. Complete edition in the translation by Walter Widmer based on the French edition by Michael de François with an afterword by Peter Amelung, Winkler Verlag, Munich 1960 (also as a licensed edition for the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt)
- The heptameron. The stories of the Queen of Navarre (translated into German and provided with an afterword by Franz Riederer). Antäus, Lübeck 1960
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- German translation by Carl Theodor von Riba as