Résultats pour "Mathilda" dans Classiques

This edition of Shelley's second novel, transcribed and introduced by Deanna Koretsky, explores the work both as a complex portrayal of taboo desires and as an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy. Mathilda is often understood as biographical, but this edition also highlights the issues of justice, gender, and rights.

Mathilde, Comtesse de Cissey vit une histoire d’amour intense et absolue avec Alphonse, Comte de Galbussa, un exilé portugais. Ensemble, ils partagent des moments de bonheur si profonds qu’ils semblent défier la réalité elle-même. Mais cet amour parfait cache une ombre : la peur de tout perdre. Prête à tout pour suivre Alphonse, Mathilde est confrontée à ses propres tourments. Comment préserver cet amour lorsqu’elle craint de le voir s’éteindre?

Writing to her only friend from her deathbed, Mathilda finally reveals the history that led to her isolated life of despairing melancholy. Of her mother dying in childbirth, her father's confession of his incestuous desire and subsequent suicide, and her relationship with a handsome young poet that fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The haunting and relentlessly self-examining voice of Mary Shelley's protagonist is a bare narrative of trauma of a brave woman's failed search for love, atonement, and redemption.

The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819-20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common romantic themes but also incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Mathilda’s emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.

"Mathilda" is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley's own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.

It tells the story of a young woman whose mother died in her childbirth - just as Shelly's own mother died after hers - and whose relationship with her bereaved father becomes sexually charged as he conflates her with his lost wife, while she becomes involved with a handsome poet.

Mathilde lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einer kleinen Berliner Wohnung in der Nähe des Bahnhofs Friedrichstraße. Als sie aus finanziellen Gründen den Jurastudenten Hugo Großmann als Untermieter aufnehmen, sieht sie endlich ihre Chance gekommen, durch Heirat aus den ärmlichen Verhältnissen auszubrechen. Von ihrem eigenen Ehrgeiz angetrieben, triezt sie den verträumten Hugo durch das juristische Examen und verschafft ihm das Bürgermeisteramt in einer nahe gelegenen Kleinstadt.

Die Geschichte der Zimmerwirtinstochter Thilde und des Referendars Großmann scheint zunächst überaschend nüchtern...

George Eliots mest ambitiösa roman Middlemarch är en komplex berättelse om idealism, lojalitet och uppslitande kärlek. I en engelsk småstad under 1800-talets första hälft får vi följa den unga idealisten Dorothea Brooke som är olyckligt gift, och den charmige men taktlöse Dr Tertius Lydgate som även han har problem på det äktenskapliga planet.