Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
Auteur de La prisonnière des Sargasses
A propos de l'auteur
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979 Writer Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. Her father was a Welsh doctor and her mother was a Dominican Creole. Her heritage deeply influenced her life as well as her writing. At seventeen, her father sent her to England to attend the Perse School, Cambridge afficher plus and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Unfortunately, she was forced to abandon her studies when her father died. Rhys worked as a chorus girl and ghostwrote a book on furniture. During World War I, she volunteered in a soldier canteen and, in 1918, worked in a pension office. In 1919, she went to Holland and married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Langlet. They had two children, a daughter and a son who died as an infant. She began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford. Her husband was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions. Her affair ended badly with Ford, and her marriage ended in divorce. In 1934, she married Leslie Tilden Smith who died in 1945. Two years later, she married Max Hamer who died in 1966. Rhys lived many years in the West Country, most often in great poverty. In 1927, Rhys' first collection of stories, "The Left Bank and Other Stories," was published. Her first novel, "Quartet" (1928), is considered to be an account of her affair with Ford Madox Ford told through Marya, a young English woman. In "Voyage in the Dark" (1934), the character is a young chorus girl involved with an older lover. She has also written "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939) and "Sleep It Off Lady" (1976) and the internationally acclaimed "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1960). Rhys was made a CBE in 1978 and received the W.H. Smith Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and an Arts Council Bursart. Rhys died on May 14, 1979 in Exeter. In the same year, her unfinished autobiography "Smile Please" appeared. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea 5 exemplaires
Acque infide (racconti) 4 exemplaires
Viagem no escuro 1 exemplaire
DETI I PAANE I SARGASEVE 1 exemplaire
Caro, caro mr Ramage (in Acque infide) 1 exemplaire
“The Day They Burned the Books” 1 exemplaire
Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams) Archive 1 exemplaire
Werke in vier Bänden 1 exemplaire
The Lotus 1 exemplaire
Temps Perdi [short story] 1 exemplaire
I Spy a Stranger [short story] 1 exemplaire
あの人たちが本を焼いた日 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Josefina, bedien die Herren : Geschichten von Frauen und Männern aus Lateinamerika — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rhys, Jean
- Nom légal
- Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (meisjesnaam)
- Autres noms
- Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray - Date de naissance
- 1890-08-24
- Date de décès
- 1979-05-14
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Matthew's Church Cheriton Fitzpaine, Mid Devon District, Devon, England
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Dominica
United Kingdom - Lieu de naissance
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Lieu du décès
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria - Études
- Perse School, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
autobiographer
essayist
nude model - Relations
- Williams, William Rees (father)
Williams, Minna (mother)
Lenglet, Willem Johan Marie Jean aka Edouard de Nève (first husband)
Tilden-Smith, Leslie (second husband)
Hamer, Max (third husband) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
- Prix et distinctions
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)
- Courte biographie
- Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams wrote under the pseudonym Jean Rhys. She was born to a British-Creole family in the British colony of Dominica in the West Indies, and left the island in 1907. She began publishing her writing in the late 1920s. Her most famous work was Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which won the W.H. Smith Award and the Heinemann Award. In it, Rhys returned to her frequent themes of conflicting cultures, dominance and dependence. Jean Rhys died in Exeter, Devon, before finishing the autobiography she was working on. The incomplete text appeared posthumously under the title Smile Please (1979).
Membres
Discussions
2. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys à Backlisted Book Club (Mars 2022)
Critiques
"Les tigres sont plus beaux à voir" de Jean Rhys. Elles sont tristes, mal aimées, dénigrées, mais également fières et pleines de vie, les prostituées qui incarnent les personnages principaux de ce recueil de nouvelles. Des histoires qui plongent le lecteur dans des tranches de vie, parfois confuses, mais toujours désespérées.
Publié en 1934, ce roman largement autobiographique raconte l'arrivée à Londres d'Anna Morgan, après une enfance heureuse aux Antilles, ses débuts d'actrice et sa lente déchéance. Ce long monologue intérieur balance entre souvenirs antillais joyeux et ensoleillés et présent londonien sombre et sordide. Un roman qui plonge dans une société où la femme était aux prises avec la dépendance masculine, le machisme général ("est-ce que vous avez jamais pensé que les vêtements d'une fille coûtent plus cher que la fille qui est dedans ?"), la cupidité des logeurs, les rivalités entre filles et les faiseuses d'anges. Un témoignage historique vivant mais dur.… (plus d'informations)
Julia Martin, une Anglaise de trente-six ans, est abandonnée par son amant. Nous suivons sa dérive, d'un petit hôtel parisien de la Rive gauche jusqu'à Londres, puis de nouveau à Paris. Entre-temps, une sensibilité aura été détruite, à jamais. S'il fallait analyser l'art d'un grand écrivain, chaque page de ce roman deviendrait exemplaire. A travers un personnage de femme meurtrie, dont la démarche est de plus en plus floue, Jean Rhys parvient à exprimer de façon inimitable l'absurdité d'un destin. Rien de spectaculaire, et pourtant on a l'impression d'aller au-delà du possible parce que l'essentiel est dit, qui nous atteint au plus profond, bouleversant nos certitudes.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 14,357
- Popularité
- #1,597
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 357
- ISBN
- 279
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 64
> Jean Rhys observe la vie d'un regard acéré et restitue ses observations recomposant un monde plutôt cruel.
—Danieljean (Babelio)