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Chargement... Temps difficiles (1854)par Charles Dickens
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» 41 plus Books Read in 2017 (65) Favourite Books (285) Folio Society (124) Didactic Fiction (7) 100 World Classics (66) Books Read in 2020 (1,265) Books Read in 2021 (1,930) Books Read in 2010 (45) Books Read in 2022 (2,179) AP Lit (197) Greatest Books (164) Ambleside Books (367) Victorian Period (24) Best Satire (125) United Kingdom (73) Alphabetical Books (66) Tagged 19th Century (36) Unread books (771) Best of World Literature (347) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Charles Dickens sigue siendo para muchos el prototipo de novelista victoriano pues en su obra se condensan los valores y los ideales de esa sociedad. Novelista burgués, sensible a los cambios sociales que se producen en su entorno, logró conciliar dos mundos: el de la sociedad establecida y el de los descontentos, el de los oprimidos. Tiempos difíciles constituye una crítica al utilitarismo más radical y aborda el tema del matrimonio como reflejo de su infeliz experiencia personal. I read this as part of the Open University Arts Foundation Course Yes, a classic. Dickens seems to have been tired at the time he wrote this. It was not up to the usual detail that he put into his books. This is about a father who runs a school in a town in England called Coketown. It's a town dominated by a look factory that pollutes the air and the river and the humans and Animals who are part of the town. The father believes that imagination, and fantasies, daydreaming, the arts, have no valid place in a child's learning. Thus it is that his own children are treated to this standard and grow up to be unhappy as a result. It starts out with an Italian traveling circus in the town, and the daughter of one of the clowns has been abandoned by her father, who is sick and doesn't have the health to make people laugh anymore. Sissy Jupe, as she is called, is taken home by Mr Gradgrind, the headmaster, and given the job of looking after his wife, the hypochondriac. Sissy is actually the most interesting character, imo, yet very little time is spent detailing her life after going to live with the Gradgrinds. Yea, disappointing Dickens work. At the outset of this novel, we know that Dickens is going to pit reason against emotion, fact against feeling, and that reason and fact are going to come up short. In a world without sympathy, compassion or warmth, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind are raised. They have everything they might want in terms of money and position, but nothing else; their contrast is Sissy Jupe, a circus child who has the love of both her father and the circus family, but is steeped in poverty. In true Dickens style, there are several side stories, one of which is the star-crossed love story of Rachael and Stephen, a sweet and dedicated pair, who bear their misfortunes with grace and acceptance. Theirs is unselfish love, which contrasts sharply with the love of Louisa for her brother, Tom, and his selfish abuse of her love for his own gain, and the loveless and unnatural marriage of Louisa with her father’s friend, Bounderby. As always, Dickens tackles the evils of the day with some humor, in the person of Mr. Sleary, and a taste of villainy, in the form of Mrs. Sparsit. He addresses the rise of unions, and in a world where such ideas were radical, he paints them in a more favorable light than might be expected. But, most effectively, he tackles the educational system that puts everything above the individual child. While Gradgrind is not a cruel man, like Mr. Squeers who runs the school in Nicholas Nickleby, he is just as misguided and damaging to his charges. Bitzer, a minor character who serves an important part in the plot, emerges as a perfect example of the kind of empty shell that can be made of a child who is given nothing to draw on but self-interest. I did not enjoy Hard Times as much as I have enjoyed other Dickens novels, but I did find it a worthwhile read and as always, there are characters here that will be long remembered. My next Dickens will be Little Dorrit, and I have heard that it is among his best efforts.
Whimsy, imagination, and sentiment have been banned in the Gradgrinds' upper-class household, but in Coketown, whose working class inhabitants fight for their very survival, the ban becomes a merciless creed. There, all that matters are the grinding wheels of production. Hard Times reflects a harsh world of grueling labor and pitiless relationships. But it is also a story of hope, of something elemental in the human spirit that rises above its bleak surroundings. Appartient à la série éditorialeEveryman's Library (292) — 22 plus Imprint Society (1972) insel taschenbuch (955) Penguin Audiobooks (PEN 56) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2011) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-07) Project Gutenberg EBook (786, 9709) Rowohlt Jahrhundert (10) The World's Classics (264) Est contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansA inspiréContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
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