What man has not had in his life at least a dream girl, cross beauty or interview the space of a moment, and he will keep the memories for years or decades? This is the About this book Alain Corbin, who selected those creatures in mythology and literature. The small problem is that the content is less exciting than the title, and that these beautiful girls are sometimes a little disembodied. Alain Corbin "reviews" nineteen of these girls / women dream of, in chronological order. One by chapter: evocation, thoughts, quotes, analysis The figures "historic" or ancient (Artemis, Daphne, Ariane, Nausicaa) are a bit far from us, statufiées. It was more used to seeing the stone or marble rather than the flesh. The atmosphere warms slightly from Juliette (that of Romeo) followed by Ophelia, Charlotte (Werther), Virginia (as Paul), but evocations are too intellectual for my taste and not very carnal. Note: for most authors, vocabulary to describe these girls is surprisingly the same without shattering originality. "It spoils the happiness in trying to describe it," Stendhal said. He did can not be wrong. But it lacks a chapter (or several) to this book is that of the cinema, this great dream machine. It might have been interesting to evoke the girls / women dream of dark rooms, the deities of the 20th century, because they are not lacking: Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Romy Schneider, Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn not to mention, of course you can complete or modify the list to your liking (I have not mentioned the most contemporary girls to not trigger endless debate) . Who has not dreamed of seeing Ava Gardner fascinated Burt Lancaster (The Killers), Grace Kelly seduced Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief) and Romy Schneider at the edge of the pool? That's the flesh that was not sad! In his book the author says that the dream girls have disappeared. Not at all; they are just past the cinema to literature. "The girls dream" is therefore an interesting attempt, but in my opinion unfinished.
