Emma is a novel by the Englishwoman Jane Austen, published anonymously (A Novel, December 1815, by the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride) Mocking the attempts of the heroine to make meet the bachelors of his entourage the ideal spouse, painted with humor the life and problems of the provincial class wealthy under the Regency. Emma is considered by some Austrians to be her most accomplished work. Considered by Sir Walter Scott as a herald of a new kind of more realistic novel, Emma first disconcerts her contemporaries by the meticulous description of a small provincial town, where not much happens outside the events of The daily life of the community. Another essential aspect is that of the novel of learning, the learning of life by Emma herself, who, despite the vivacity of her mind, struggles so much to understand the feelings of others and her own. Other aspects of the novel, taken later, may also surprise us, such as its character of "crime novel without murder", which only a thorough re-reading allows to fully appreciate. Emma has been the subject of several translations in French, the first just one year after its publication in England. After a "forgetfulness" of a hundred years, the novel was serialized in the Journal des débats in 1910; As is often the case in Jane Austen's French translations, the irony and the "second degree" proper to the author disappear in the adaptation that is made of it. The work has since been regularly published in French, in more or less faithful translations-adaptations.
About the Author: Jane Austen (born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England) and died on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, in the same county, is a woman of English literature. Her realism, her biting social criticism and her mastery of free indirect discourse, her offbeat humor and her irony made her one of the most widely read and loved English writers. All her life, Jane Austen remained in a closely knit family unit belonging to the English little gentry. She owes her education largely to her father and her elder brothers, as well as to her own readings. The unfailing support of his family is essential for his evolution as a professional writer3,4. Jane Austen's artistic apprenticeship extends from her early teens to her twenty-fifth year. During this period she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel she experimented with before abandoning her, and wrote and reworked three major novels, while beginning a fourth. From 1811 to 1816, with the publication of Sense and Sensibility (published anonymously in 1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey (completed in 1803) and Persuasion, are both the subject of a posthumous publication in 1818; In January 1817, she began her last novel, finally entitled Sanditon, which she could not finish before her death. Jane Austen's work is, among other things, a critique of the sentimental novels of the second half of the eighteenth century and belongs to the transition that leads to the literary realism of the nineteenth century. Jane Austen's intrigues, although essentially of a comic nature, that is, with a happy outcome, highlight women's dependence on marriage for social status and economic security. Like Samuel Johnson, one of his major influences, she is particularly interested in moral issues. Because of the anonymity it seeks to preserve, its reputation is modest during its lifetime, with some favorable criticism. In the nineteenth century, his novels were admired only by the literary elite. However, the publication in 1869 of A Memoir of Jane Austen, written by his nephew, makes it known to a wider audience. ....