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Temps difficiles (1854)

par Charles Dickens

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M. Gradgrind a donn#65533; #65533; ses enfants Tom et Louise, une #65533;ducation rigoureuse, sans tendresse, ne laissant place ni #65533; l'imagination, ni #65533; la r#65533;verie, comme il nous l'explique: #65533;Ce que je veux, ce sont des faits. Enseignez des faits #65533; ces gar#65533;ons et #65533; ces filles, rien que des faits. Les faits sont la seule chose dont on ait besoin ici-bas.#65533;. Louise #65533;pouse M. Bounderby, l'ami de M Gradgrind, riche industriel parti de rien et fier de sa r#65533;ussite. Il emploiera Tom dans sa banque comme comptable.… (plus d'informations)
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    CurrerBell: The Professor and Hard Times don't have all that much in common — and even less so do CB and CD have that much in common — but there's an interesting conversational exchange in The Professor, in the last chapter but one, that reminds me of the "reason vs. sensibility" theme in Hard Times.… (plus d'informations)
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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.
  Natt90 | Mar 17, 2023 |
I read this as part of the Open University Arts Foundation Course ( )
  Susan-Pearson | Feb 23, 2023 |
Yes, a classic. ( )
  sfj2 | Dec 13, 2022 |
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. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
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.
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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
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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.
 

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She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace.
There was a library in Coketown, to which general access was easy. Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library: a point whereon little rivers of tabular statements periodically flowed into the howling ocean of tabular statements, which no diver ever got to any depth in and came up sane. It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering. They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women! They sometimes, after fifteen hours' work, sat down to read mere fables about men and women, more or less like themselves, and about children, more or less like their own. They took De Foe to their bosoms, instead of Euclid, and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker. Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working, in print and out of print, at this eccentric sum, and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product
For the first time in her life Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands; for the first time in her life she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them. She knew of their existence by hundreds and by thousands. She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time. She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women.

Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be. But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops.
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M. Gradgrind a donn#65533; #65533; ses enfants Tom et Louise, une #65533;ducation rigoureuse, sans tendresse, ne laissant place ni #65533; l'imagination, ni #65533; la r#65533;verie, comme il nous l'explique: #65533;Ce que je veux, ce sont des faits. Enseignez des faits #65533; ces gar#65533;ons et #65533; ces filles, rien que des faits. Les faits sont la seule chose dont on ait besoin ici-bas.#65533;. Louise #65533;pouse M. Bounderby, l'ami de M Gradgrind, riche industriel parti de rien et fier de sa r#65533;ussite. Il emploiera Tom dans sa banque comme comptable.

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