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Le cheval évanoui / L'écharde

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Pour vivre en homme fortuné sans se donner la peine de gagner une fortune, Hubert Darsay a trouvé la solution : épouser une riche héritière, Priscilla, dont il entend croquer ensuite la dot en compagnie de Coralie, son amie de cœur.
Le rideau se lève sur la présentation du fiancé à ses futurs beaux-parents, Henry-James et Felicity Chesterfield. L'entrée en scène du frère de Priscilla, Bertram, donne à Hubert l'idée d'un fructueux doublé : un mariage entre ce Bertram et Coralie.
Amusée par le projet, Coralie accourt mais, moins cynique que son ami et plus intelligente, elle est sensible au charme de son hôte, le lucide Henry-James, et ce nouvel élément fait que l'intrigue du Cheval évanoui bascule pour notre plus grand plaisir du vaudeville vers la comédie de mœurs spirituelle et nuancée sur les rêves d'amour et d'or de deux générations.

Par contre, Elisabeth, l'héroïne de L'Echarde, se grise moins d'amour et d'or que de gloire théâtrale - à un point qui confine à la mythomanie. Cette comédienne obscure, mûrissante et désargentée est un poids mort pour un jeune chacal aux dents longues comme son petit ami Ivan. Mais s'il existe des damoiseaux réalistes et cyniques, il y en a d'autres capables d'aîmer les illusions : c'est tout le thème de L'Echarde.

189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

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Françoise Sagan

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Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer.

She went to her family's home in the south of France and wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, at age 18. She submitted it to Editions Juillard in January 1954 and it was published that March. Later that year, She won the Prix des Critiques for Bonjour Tristesse.

She chose "Sagan" as her pen name because she liked the sound of it and also liked the reference to the Prince and Princesse de Sagan, 19th century Parisians, who are said to be the basis of some of Marcel Proust's characters.

She was known for her love of drinking, gambling, and fast driving. Her habit of driving fast was moderated after a serious car accident in 1957 involving her Aston Martin while she was living in Milly, France.

Sagan was twice married and divorced, and subsequently maintained several long-term lesbian relationships. First married in 1958 to Guy Schoeller, a publisher, they divorced in 1960, and she was then married to Robert James Westhoff, an American ceramicist and sculptor, from 1962 to 63. She had one son, Denis, from her second marriage.

She won the Prix de Monaco in 1984 in recognition of all of her work.

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je me out officiellement fan des comédies de Sagan, c'est intelligent, immoral, grotesque, du divertissement pur
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Deux pièces, une heure de lecture, du bon Sagan bien condensé... Sans surprise si on connaît l'auteure mais toujours un plaisir!
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الحصام المغمى عليه
عنوان الرواية وهو تعبير مجازي يعبر بدقة عن الحالة التي وصل اليها هوبير أحد أبطال الرواية من الركض والسعي طوال الرواية للوصول إلى مبتغاه وعندما قارب أن يصل إليه أعدل عن رأيه فكأنه كالحصان المغمى عليه الذي لم يستطع أن يكمل السباق
وقد إستطاعت فرانسوا ساجان أن تصور هذه الحالة جيدا وأتقنت في التعبير عن دور الأب الحاذق الذي استطاع بفراسته أن يستنبط حقيقة خطيب ابنته فلم يعارض الخطبة ولكنه إستطاع بفطنته ودهائه أن ينهي هذه الخطبة في مسرحية ممتعة
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