by Thomas Hardy · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253098324
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«Jude l'obscur» is the novel by Thomas Hardy, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (480 pages, in French).
Jude Fawley, a young English stonemason, tries to rise above his condition and satisfy his thirst for culture. He falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, an independent married woman; the passion that arises between them clashes with social conventions. The work reflects on the desires that set the individual against himself and against the laws of his environment.
This French edition belongs to the Les Classiques de Poche collection and includes a preface by Edmond Jaloux and a translation by F. W. Laparra. The original title, Jude the Obscure, was published in 1895.
For readers of Victorian classics and nineteenth-century European fiction who prefer the French version.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
