Titre : | Wide Sargosso Sea | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Jean Rhys | Editeur : | London : Pengouin books | Année de publication : | 2002 | Collection : | Penguin student editions | Importance : | 1 vol. (XXVII-168 p.) | Présentation : | couv. ill. en coul. | Format : | 20 cm | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-081803-1 | Prix : | 6.4 EUR | Langues : | Français (fre) | Langues originales : | Anglais (eng) | Catégories : | RAMEAU Roman anglophone ; Anglais (langue) ; Littérature anglaise Plan de classement Palaiseau BC2.Ang Anglais
| Résumé : | In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched." | Type de document : | Livre | Permalien de la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=50844 |
Wide Sargosso Sea [texte imprimé] / Jean Rhys . - London : Pengouin books, 2002 . - 1 vol. (XXVII-168 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. - ( Penguin student editions) . ISBN : 978-0-14-081803-1 : 6.4 EUR Langues : Français ( fre) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng) Catégories : | RAMEAU Roman anglophone ; Anglais (langue) ; Littérature anglaise Plan de classement Palaiseau BC2.Ang Anglais
| Résumé : | In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched." | Type de document : | Livre | Permalien de la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=50844 |
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