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Les Demi Vierges


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" A lire Les Demi-Vierges, on croirait que l'avenir et la stabilite de la societe tiennent a la vertu de ses filles. Toutes ? Non, les seules jeunes personnes du monde oisif et elegant. Prevost n'en connait pas d'autre. L'oisivete lui semble etre un element essentiel de la qualite humaine et de l'emploi du temps des gens bien. L'oisivete, c'est le cinq a sept, la possibilite pour les dames d'avoir leur " jour," pour les messieurs de s'y rendre, et, pour les (presque) jeunes filles de passer un discret moment chez une amie complaisante qui leur laisse la libre disposition d'une chambre. Une chambre ! Ah, qu'y font-elles ? C'est la seule question que pose M. Prevost pendant quatre cents pages. Jusqu'ou vont-elles ? Qu'acceptent-elles ? Il faut le reconnaitre, il y a de quoi bouleverser les jeunes viveurs d'il y a un siecle. Qu'on imagine la poupee interdite qu'etait alors une jeune fille, serree dans un corset, enveloppee de jupons, une modestie voilant son decollete, l'usage degageant ses epaules - le soir, l'ete - et laissant s'echauffer les reves au-dessus de la gorge, de ce sillon, de cette felicite, de cette attente, de cette offrande. Oui, jusqu'ou vont-elles ? La societe de 1900 - a mi-chemin entre la Fete imperiale et les audaces a la Paul Morand - avait eleve la traque des pucelages par les hommes et leur defense farouche par les filles a la dignite de ballet impudique, de parade ritualisee et acharnee. La aussi, comme dans un duel, on s'arretait au premier sang ." A Propos Prevost: Eugene Marcel Prevost est un romancier et auteur dramatique francais, ne a Paris le 1er mai 1862 et mort a Vianne le 8 avril 1941. Apres des etudes au petit seminaire d'Orleans, puis a Chatellerault, a Bordeaux (college Saint-Joseph de Tivoli) et chez les Jesuites de Paris, Marcel Prevost integra l'Ecole polytechnique en 1882. Il fut ingenieur a la manufacture de tabacs de Tonneins en Lot-et-Garonne, ville ou son pere avait ete sous-directeur des contributions indirectes, avant d'entrer dans un ministere. Des 1881, il commenca a publier des nouvelles dans Le Clairon, journal monarchiste. En 1890, il quitta la fonction publique pour se consacrer a la litterature. Apres des premiers romans consacres a la vie de province - Le Scorpion (1887), Chonchette (1888), Mlle Jaufre (1889) - il s'engagea dans la veine qui devait lui amener la notoriete l'etude du caractere des femmes vu d'un point de vue strictement masculin, avec des romans comme Cousine Laura (1890), La Confession d'un amant (1891), Lettres de femmes (1892), L'Automne d'une femme (1893). Il triompha en 1894 avec Les Demi-Vierges, son roman le plus celebre. Il decrit en forcant le trait les ravages que la vie parisienne et l'education moderne sont censes faire chez les jeunes filles. Le roman fut ensuite adapte a la scene et cree avec un grand succes au Theatre du Gymnase le 2 mai 1895. Le terme demi-vierge, passe dans le langage courant, designe une jeune fille affranchie mais cependant vierge. Dans le meme esprit, Marcel Prevost publia ensuite Jardin secret 1897), Les Vierges fortes (1900), Frederique (1900), Lea (1900), L'Heureux Menage (1901), Les Lettres a Francoise (1902), La Princesse d'Erminge (1904), L'Accordeur aveugle (1905), Feminites (1912), Les Don Juanes (1922), La Mort des Ormeaux (1938). Dans une production abondante et uniforme, on peut signaler Monsieur et Madame Moloch (1906), amusante satire du caractere allemand. Il fut elu a l'Academie francaise le 27 mai 1909, au fauteuil de Victorien Sardou. Il est portraiture par le peintre Paul Chabas (1869-1937) sur le tableau commande par l'editeur Alphonse Lemerre, Chez Alphonse Lemerre, a Ville D'Avray (salon de 1895), aux cotes de l'ecrivain et academicien francais Paul Bourget, de Sully-Prudhomme, de Paul Arene ou de Alphonse Daudet, entre autre


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  • ISBN-13: 9781979327534
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 206
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 197932753X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 331 gr


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