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La foire aux vanités, Tome I
Tout le monde connat ces rendez-vous en plein air, ces rjouissances annuelles et ambulantes qui appellent les amateurs de bruit, de poussire et de plaisir. La Foire aux Vanits est l'idal du genre. On y trouve mme cohue, mme tumulte, mmes clats de rire; toutefois, la diffrence de ces ftes populaires qui n'ont lieu qu' des intervalles loigns, la Foire aux Vanits se tient en permanence; elle a commenc avec le monde, elle ne finira qu'avec lui: c'est une parade universelle o chacun a son rle jouer, o chacun tour tour rit du prochain et le fait rire ses dpens. Mais, tandis que la plupart des acteurs de cette comdie humaine disparaissent dans le tourbillon gnral sans laisser trace de leur passage, quelques-uns sortent de la foule, fondent leur rputation et s'lvent aux yeux de la postrit au rang de chefs d'emploi et de crateurs du genre. C'est ainsi que l'on peut nommer parmi tant d'autres et Panurge, et Macette, et Tartufe, et Basile. cette galerie dj peuple de personnages si clbres, M. Thackeray a ajout un type qui n'est ni moins expressif ni moins vrai que les prcdents. C'est celui d'une jeune fille sans famille, sans fortune et sans cur, mais aventurire ambitieuse, qui s'obstine trouver un mari avec les seules ressources d'une imagination prcoce: c'est qu'un mari quivaut pour elle une position sociale, c'est qu'un mari est le passe-port ncessaire sans lequel aucune femme ne saurait circuler dans le monde honnte. Puis aprs le mariage vient la manire de s'en servir. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 19112
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Release Date: Aug 24, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: French
Translator: Guiffrey, Georges, 1827-1887
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