Airlux Airlux Hotte murale 70cm Ahp77IX × Aucun prix Meilleur prix près de chez moi Wharton 0 avis clients Donnez votre avis "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth, " warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age. One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental, " and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls. Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward, " she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak Ce produit Airlux Airlux Hotte murale 70cm Ahp77IX autour de chez moi Loading Fiche Produit Airlux Airlux Hotte murale 70cm Ahp77IX Nombre de pages 16 ISBN 068480123X Editeur S & S International Date de publication 1996-08-06 Description "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth, " warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age. One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental, " and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls. Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward, " she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak Format Broché Auteur Wharton 0 avis clients sur Airlux Airlux Hotte murale 70cm Ahp77IX Donnez votre avis Tous les produits du rayon Hottes Caves à vinCuisinièresFoursHottesGroupe filtrantHotte DecorativeHotte VisièreLavage - SéchageLave vaisselleRefrigérateur - CongélateurTables de cuisson Ces produits pourraient vous intéresser N/C Dedietrich dhg690xp1 - de dietrich dhg690xp1 - hotte aspirante - extraction Voir le détail N/C Electrolux afc 90244w Voir le détail N/C Le troisième testament, tome 2: matthieu ou le visage de l'ange Voir le détail N/C Bosch dhi 645 f Voir le détail N/C Hotte aspirante brandt ad 1046 x Voir le détail N/C Roblin espace 1200 air confort 6002120 Voir le détail N/C Electrolux arthur martin electrolux efc 90345 x Voir le détail N/C Bosch dhe 655m Voir le détail N/C Hotte décor 90cm coloris inox brandt ad1009x Voir le détail N/C Hotte décorative rbs93in rosières Voir le détail N/C Faure - fhc9754x - hotte décorative - 90 cm - verre - 515 m3/h Voir le détail N/C Akr972/01 inox - whirlpool - hottes Voir le détail N/C Dedietrich dhd496xe1 - de dietrich dhd496xe1 - cheminée - 120 cm - extraction - acier inoxydable Voir le détail N/C Lagrange - 189002 - appareil à croque monsieur - croq'y® Voir le détail N/C Hotpoint-ariston groupe filtrant agmhaix hotpoint ariston Voir le détail N/C Whirlpool akr 808 ix - hotte décorative - 80 cm - evacuation & recyclage - inox Voir le détail N/C Akr563 inox - whirlpool - hottes Voir le détail N/C Hottes plan de travail - ahv98bk verre noir / inox Voir le détail N/C Scholtes hi439w hotte decor - débit d'air maximum :700m3-h- nombre de vitesses d'aspiration : 3-... 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