the Lady with the Camélia S is a novel of Alexandre Dumas wire published in 1848, inspired of a real fact various: love of Alexandre Dumas wire itself, for the courtesan Marie Duplessis.

Summary and Analyzes

the Lady with the camellias delivers a history of love to us as one often finds some in the literature, between a courtesan reached of tuberculosis (Marguerite Gautier) and a young middle-class man (Armand Duval). The narration of this history of love is an account in the account, since Armand Duval tells his adventure with the initial narrator of the novel.

In love with Marguerite, Armand becomes his lover and obtains that Marguerite gives up her life of courtesan to live with him in the countryside. The idylle is broken by the father of Armand who obtains that Marguerite gives up Armand, who will believe until the death of Marguerite that this one had misled it. The death of Marguerite is described like an anguish without end, where Marguerite, given up by all, can only regret what could have been.

Passion exceeds the reason, but with the difference of the knight Of Grieux, another lover delivered to the pangs of a love for a “courtesan in the heart” (in " Manon Lescaut, " work to which Dumas refers in her own novel), Armand will love a woman very ready to sacrifice his richness and his way of life to him.

Dumas endeavors to return Marguerite sympathetic nerve and almost virtuous in spite of her past. Illegitimate alliance, this love touches the reader who cannot remain insensitive with the reciprocal suffering of the two lovers, constrained to line up side of the standard.

The novel is especially outstanding by the seizing portrait which it makes of this fashionable Parisian life of 19th, and of the fragile and transitory character of the world of the courtesans.

Autobiographical work

For his novel, Alexandre Dumas takes as a starting point his own relations with the Demi-mondaine Marie Duplessis. Put in very young pension, he very badly saw his statute of child " bâtard" as he even says it him, and when he meets Marie Duplessis in 1844, she brings the stability to him which he needs. She becomes her mistress and the subject of her novel.

What said Dumas in connection with her novel

• "Not having yet the age to lie, I am satisfied with raconter."

• " I thus engage the reader with being convinced of the reality of this history of which all the characters, except for heroin, live encore"

• "Moreover, there is in Paris, of the witnesses of the majority of the facts that I collect here, and who could confirm them, if my testimony were not enough. By a particular circumstance, only I could write them, because only, I was the confidant of the last details, without which, it had been impossible to make an account interesting and complet."

• "I do not draw from this account the conclusion that all the girls as Marguerite are able to do what it did. Far from there, but I am informed that one of them had tested in its life a serious love, that she had suffered from it and that she had died about it. I told with the reader what I had learned. It was a devoir."

• "The person who was used to me as model for the heroin of the Lady to the camellias named Alphonsine Plessis, of which it had composed the name euphonique and more raised of Marie Duplessis. She was large, very thin, black of hair, pink and white of face. She had the small head, of long eyes of enamel like a Japanese woman, but sharp and fine, the lips of the red of cherries, the most beautiful teeth of the world; a figurine of Saxony had been said. In 1844, when I live it for the first time, it opened out in all its opulence and its beauty. She died in 1847, of a chest complaint, at the age twenty-three ans."

Adaptations

The novel was the subject of many adaptations of which in particular:

Ballet

• the Lady with the camellias - John Neumeier, costumes Jürgen Pink. Very faithful to the novel, the ballet accentuates it parallel with the history of Manon Lescaut
• Marguerite and Armand - Frederick Ashton, ballet created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Noureev. Show primarily the history of love between the two heroes and the intervention of Mr Duval. All the supporting roles are non-existent.
• the lady with the Camellias Ballet of Jorge Lefebre (royal Ballet of Wallonia 1980) with Christine Klépal

Opera

• Traviata of Giuseppe Verdi

Theater

• the Lady with the camellias adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas wire itself

Cinema and television

• 1907 : the Lady with the camellias of Vigo Larsen
• 1909: the Lady with the camellias of Ugo Falena
• 1912: the Lady with the camellias of Andre Calmettes and Henri Pouctal with Sarah Bernhardt
• 1915: the Lady with the camellias (delle camelie will signora It) of Baldassarre Negroni and Gustavo Serena
• 1921: the Lady with the camellias of Ray C. Smallwood with Went Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino
• 1934: the Lady with the camellias of Abel Gance and Fernand Rivers with Yvonne Spring and Pierre Fresnay
• 1936: the Novel of Marguerite Gautier ( Camille ) of George Cukor with Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
• 1953: the Lady with the camellias of Raymond Bernard with Micheline Presle and Gino Cervi
• 1953: the Lady without camellias of Michelangelo Antonioni with Lucia Bump and Gino Cervi
• 1962: the Lady with the camellias , adaptation and dialogs by Marcel Pagnol, telefilm carried out by François Gir
• 1980: the Lady with the camellias (delle camelie rammed It) Mauro Bolognini with Isabelle Huppert and Gian Maria Volontè
• 2001: Free adaptation in Moulin-Rouge! of Baz Luhrmann (with Nicole Kidman and Ewan Mc Gregor)

Internal bond

• Casimir Davaine - attending physician of the Lady to the camellias

External bond

• the lady with the camellias - Full text on WikiSource

• the lady with the camellias becomes an opera for Verdi:

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