Captivating the orient: the marquis de Renoncour's Turkish adventure.(Critical Essay) From: Philological Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Young, Paul J. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Iowa. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The marquis de Renoncour plays perhaps the most important "supporting role" in the history of eighteenth-century French literature. Renoncour's cameo appearance is so subtle, however, that many forget that he is in fact the invisible interlocutor of des Grieux's tale in the Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Indeed, although it is his first-person narrative that opens the tale of a young nobleman driven to ruin by love, fate and passion--"Je suis oblige de faire ...

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