Autant en emporte le vent

1407 pages

Langue : French

Publié 1 mai 1989 par Éditions Gallimard.

ISBN :
978-2-07-071652-4
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Best-seller absolu depuis sa parution en 1936 ! En pleine guerre de Sécession, la ravissante et très déterminée Scarlett O'Hara voit le bel avenir qui lui était réservé à jamais ravagé. Douée d'une énergie peu commune, elle va se battre sur tous les fronts, dans la Géorgie en feu, pour sauver la terre et le domaine paternels : Tara. Ses amours ? Le fragile et distingué Ashley Wilkes et Rhett Butler, forceur de blocus et séduisante canaille, attiré par Scarlett parce qu'elle n'a pas plus de scrupules que lui... Amours romantiques, violentes, impossibles, rythment ce grand moment de l'histoire américaine, le drame du Sud.

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a publié une critique de Gone With the Wind par Margaret Mitchell

Well, that was a wild ride, wasn't it?

I'm not sure if I was supposed to like Scarlett O'Hara. I definitely DIDN'T like her, but it's such a mammoth book, to spend all that time loathing the main character, I wondered if I was supposed to like her, at least a bit. However, she's so unspeakably selfish, never kind unless she can get something she wants by feigning kindness, and unimaginably dense about what anyone else might be thinking or feeling, never mind why. Dense, but also, utterly disinterested.

I found Rhett Butler a much more interesting character. He shares many of her quirks, but he has vastly greater understanding, compassion and potential for kindness than she does. He's a proper anti-hero - he does terrible things, but also great things, an enigma of a man, whom Scarlett would have done well to study properly, instead of skimming over him as if he was as shallow as she …