The writer of reason

Jane Austen is now famous in France as elsewhere - although in France, one often reads his works in versions are adaptations rather than translations. Faced with sentimental novels fond overflows its time (and which we assimilate a little too lightly hers), she wants the writer of reason and seeks to protect the drive against the vagaries of a heart delivered to one slope of selfishness. In his nuanced portraits, it does not give the background for rugged landscapes of gothic novels (ridiculed in Northanger Abbey), but those apparently more peaceful, of an English country she knows from the inside and she reveals behind the scenes: the world of good rural society, where young girls must learn to direct their feelings to reach the dreamed happiness. The choice of a suitor, the steps leading to marriage forms the main plot of his novels: the opportunity for his sharp eye to uncover many truths - in a language of extraordinary precision, that this translation s 'endeavors to observe in detail.