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An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Archer's world is always changing.… (plus d'informations)
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"Le temps de l'innocence" d'Edith Wharton, ou les oscillations entre cœur et raison d'un homme prisonnier d'une société new-yorkaise de la fin du 19e siècle où "le scandale est plus à craindre que la maladie, la décence est la forme suprême du courage et où tout éclat dénote un manque d'éducation". Prix Pulitzer en 1921 (le premier attribué à une femme), ce drame psychologique d'une précision stylistique rare dessine un monde corseté dans ses traditions, outré par les modes et les arts européens, conservant à dessein les femmes dans une ignorance complète et faisant, finalement, le malheur de tous. ( )
A larger life and more tolerant views: That’s the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it’s as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words.
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On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
[Foreword - Penguin Classics] When I was growing up, I viewed literary "classics" with a certain degree of suspicion
[Introduction - Penguin Classics] On a fateful evening near the end of the novel, May Archer, nee Welland, delivers a devastating piece of news to her husband, Newland.
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And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
It was the old New York way of taking life" without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.
When he thought of Ellen Olenska it was abstractly, serenely, as one might think of some imaginary beloved in a book or a picture: she had become the composite vision of all that he had missed.
That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland's familiar features; and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
"No," she acquiesced; and her tone was so faint and desolate that he felt a sudden remorse for his own hard thoughts. "The individual, in such cases, is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to be the collective interest: people cling to any convention that keeps the family together--protects the children, if there are any," he rambled on, pouring out all the stock phrases that rose to his lips in his intense desire to cover over the ugly reality which her silence seemed to have laid bare.
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At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.
[Foreword - Penguin Classics] A larger life and more tolerant views: that's the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it's as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words.
[Introduction - Penguin Classics] The novel's meaningful elasticity is thanks to a writer who was exacting, meticulous, and perceptive, in her life and in her art, fascinated by the alchemical interplay of social structure and individual freedom.
An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Archer's world is always changing.
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Le Temps de l'innocence date des années 20.L e roman d'Edith Wharton raconte l'histoire d'un jeune homme, Newland Archer, séduit par une jeune femme seule et intelligente, la comtesse Olenska, qui désire divorcer, ce que le clan familial et social américain des années 1880 ne peut accepter. On sait que les thèmes favoris d'Edith Wharton sont la solitude, l'amour frustré, la difficulté de vaincre les barrières sociales pour parvenir à la pureté de l'individu.Le milieu américain de l'époque à la fois frivole et implacable, est admirablement décrit ; c'est l'atmosphère de la vieille New York puritaine et de ses nouveaux riches. Tout le récit mène vers un suspens où la véritable nature de May Welland, la femme légitime d'Archer, est révélée. Un grand livre sur un homme déchiré entre deux femmes, prisonnier d'un milieu, face à une passion qu'il n'a pas le courage de vivre.
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The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34
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