Le matrimoine / Bazin, Hervé / Réf20727

by Hervé Bazin

Dans la langue familière, se marier est souvent pris comme synonyme de faire une fin, ce qui semble impliquer qu'a été conclue une association assurant au nouveau couple l'opulence et la paix jusqu'à son dernier jour. Or ce jour-là est lointain, ceux qui s'écoulent entre-temps onéreux et la fin est en réalité celle de la vie antérieure à la cérémonie : tel est le paradoxe du mariage dont le jeune avocat angevin Abel Bretaudeau mesure la vérité dès le retour du voyage de noces. Rien ne l'a préparé à l'existence à deux qui commence pour lui avec Mariette Guimarch, fille de bonnetiers prospères. A deux ? C'est compter sans l'invasion de la belle-famille, puis bientôt d'une nouvelle génération de Bretaudeau, tous profondément marqués par l'éducation Guimarch. Ainsi le veut la tendance du siècle où le sceptre échappe au roi pour passer aux mains de la reine, où le patrimoine se transforme en matri-moine pour la plus grande gloire de la méragosse... et son plus grand souci. Abel le note d'une plume tour à tour vengeresse, amusée, atten-drie, au fil de cette chronique d'un ménage pareil à tant d'autres qui est aussi la chronique spirituelle et percutante des moeurs de notre temps.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Hervé Bazin (Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin) (April 7, 1911, Angers - February 17, 1996, Angers) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families

Reviews

[Arthur King · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book often makes readers have mixed feelings. On the one hand we see the life of a typical bourgeois family of the last century, described very realistic, the eyes men for the wedding, life together, the arrival of children, etc.

Such a view in the literature is not typical because usually the relations between the sexes – the sphere of the possession of the writers. This interest in the book.

On the other hand, Hervé Bazin describes everything is so realistic that at times it becomes uncomfortable. In this case, I note, I read all kinds of books, say, Henry Miller, who did not skimp on realism in the description of relations and the description of sexual life. But I have never experienced.

When reading Bazin, there is an uneasy feeling, the same one as written Strugatsky, which makes Prim toes. Feel like spying on people through the glass, and they do not know.

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[Jillian990 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[Virgilio Machado · Rating 5 out of 5]

«Chamo matrimónio a tudo aquilo que, no casamento, é da competência da mulher, bem como àquilo que, nos nossos dias, tende a deixar de ser a parte do leão para se tornar na parte da leoa.» Este pensamento, que inicia, destacado, O Matrimónio, resume bem os dois principais aspectos deste novo romance de Hervé Bazin: crónica conjugal em que se encontram, simultaneamente descritos, o comportamento da mulher no casamento e - sublinhada - a diminutio capitis que sofrem os homens de hoje. [...] Se Hervé Bazin é verdadeiramente, como alguém disse, um «especialista das dificuldades familiares», O Matrimónio completa uma obra cujos meios, desde Em Nome do Filho - incluída nesta colecção -; lhe têm valido o mais constante dos sucessos.

Abas da capa e contracapa.

[Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite book of all times! Went through a first "Livre de Poche" edition until it fell apart. Have read it over 10 times and still discover myriad new nuances to delight the senses.

Hervé Bazin is a master of the French "double-entendre" and one feels his deep love of language in every sentence he writes.

For me, a true masterpiece...

Read it for the first time when I turned 20, the latest re-read in 2010.

[Olga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn't stop reading.