16 pages Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent X


Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent
- Emily BRONTË
- L'école des loisirs

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Emily BRONTË
Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) : Une vie de recluse dans un presbytère, de nombreux deuils, quelques mois d’étude en Belgique et une passion pour la poésie, le piano et la lande du Yorkshire : telle fut la trop brève existence d’Emily Brontë, avec, en point d’orgue, un unique roman, mais peut-être le plus grand de la littérature anglaise.
Emily Brontë lived from 1818 to 1848. Although she wrote only Wuthering Heights and about a dozen poms she is accepted as one of the most gifted writers ever. Perhaps the intensity of her writing grew out of the extraordinary pressures of her home life.
Emily's mother died when she was three and she lived with her four sisters and one brother in a bleak, isolated Yorkshire village, Haworth. Her father doted on his only son, Branwell, and expected little from his daughters, they surprised him while Branwell wasted his life and died an alcoholic and drug addict. The girls suffered dreadfully at a cheap boarding school, the oldest two dying of malnutrition. Emily, Charlotte and Anne were brought home just in time but Emily never lost her terrible fear of institutions and of being closed in. The sisters later became governesses to help support Branwell, seen by their father as a future great artist. They also began to publish their writing, under male pen-names as there was much prejudice against women writers. Their first book, a collection of poetry, failed but Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, was highly acclaimed and is still widely read today.
Emily seldom left her home village yet produced one of the most powerful novels of the inner self ever written. She caught a cold at her brother's funeral in 1848 and died a few months later.
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Heathcliff, enfant trouvé, a grandi en valet de ferme dans une famille de la campagne anglaise. Il éprouve un fort penchant pour Catherine, la fille de la maison, et celle-ci n'est pas insensible à son charme ; mais elle choisit, le moment venu, d'épouser plutôt un garçon "de son rang", riche par surcroît. Obsédé par un sentiment d'injustice et par son besoin de revanche, Heathcliff, nature violente, démontre une brutalité de réaction dont la charge explosive va produire autour de lui les effets d'une bombe à fragmentation. Le tableau des ravages accomplis – désolant champ de ruines – nous est brossé par une jeune romancière qui mourra à vingt-neuf ans sans être pour ainsi dire jamais sortie de chez elle. Traduction de Frédéric Delebecque, texte abrégé par Boris Moissard.