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Chargement... The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics) (original 1886; édition 2009)par Thomas Hardy (Auteur), Dale Kramer (Directeur de publication), Pamela Dalziel (Introduction)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe maire de casterbridge / histoire d'un homme de caractere par Thomas Hardy (1886)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I devoured Hardy as a teenager, but approached this book with some foreboding. I feared I would find it slow-going. It wasn't. I loved from the first Hardy's evocation of the Dorset countryside, its rural and urban landscape. Hardy specialises in telling us about lives which do not go well, and the story of the brooding, moody self-made Michael Henshaw, Mayor of Casterbridge is no exception. Although I was more convinced by his male characters than the female, I was drawn into the lives of the principal protagonists. It was obvious things would not end in a good way, but I was involved in the narrative, and in the detailed picture of a way of life already on its way out, a rural throw-back. This is a powerful and sympathetic study of a deeply flawed character, and the milieu in which he spent his life. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Michael Henchard est un jeune saisonnier qui vit avec sa femme, Susan, et sa fille, Elizabeth-Jane, dans un village du Wessex.Un jour, sous l'empire de l'alcool, apres une violente dispute avec sa femme, il decide de la vendre avec sa fille a un marin de passage, M. Wenson. Degrise, il mesure l'etendue du desastre et, plus seul que jamais, se promet de ne plus jamais s'approcher d'un goulot...Dix-huit annees apres, devenu un marchand prospere, Michael est elu maire de la ville de Casterbridge. Tous le croient veuf. Mais le hasard place sur sa route une certaine Lucette Le Sueur, avec qui il noue une relation...Or la jeune femme, deshonoree, se voit contrainte d'epouser Michael pour retrouver sa dignite. Pas si simple, puisque le maire de Casterbridge, devant la loi, reste un homme marie... C'est le moment que choisissent, pour surgir du passe, Susan et sa fille Elisabeth-Jane... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The story begins with Michael Henchard who after a few too many drinks at a fair sells his wife to a stranger, a passing sailor, for five guineas. His wife leaves with the sailor, taking his daughter Elizabeth-Jane with her, leaving Henchard to his remorse and regret when he sobers up the next day. Henchard makes an oath of sobriety and manages to become a prosperous landowner and the Mayor of Casterbridge. Years later, after the sailor dies, his wife Susan and daughter return, creating a second chance for all. He takes on a manager, the charming, clever Scotsman Donald Farfrae. The happiness is short lived though, and with more twists and turns than a soap opera, Henchard sinks himself from his dizzy heights to an even lower low, by virtue of his blustering, pig-headed and impetuous nature.
Initially Henchard had my sympathy and the story was engrossing. By the end I was completely fed up with his petty jealousies and self-sabotaging behaviour and just wanted it to end. Like most men of his era, Hardy does not write convincing female characters. Susan was a feeble and gullible character and Elizabeth-Jane, although upright and moral, was fairly flat and passive. Hardy’s characters certainly have to pay for their mistakes, and he doesn’t do HEA. His line at the end sums up Hardy’s cheery approach to life in a nutshell: “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” Luckily the audio narration by Tony Britt was enjoyable. ( )