Carmen

'Carmen' by Prosper Mérimée is one of the most explosive short novels of the nineteenth century-a story where desire, freedom, and violence collide under the burning sun of southern Spain. Long before Bizet turned her into an operatic legend, Carmen lived on the page as something far more unsettling: a woman who refuses every form of control, even when the price is death.Told with chilling clarity and ironic restraint, Mérimée's novella follows Don José, a disciplined soldier undone by his obse ...