داستانی بسیار زیبا، تاثیرگذار و غم انگیزی بود. اونقدر تحت تاثیر قرارم داد که صفحات آخر رو با اشک می خوندم. سرنوشت یک روسپی شریف که حاضر شد فداکاری بی نظیر و مثال زدنی در راه عشق انجام داده که نظیر اون رو در داستانهای تاریخی و اساطیری خوندیم. به نظرم خیلی فوق العاده بود.

غريب أمر الحب بكل أحواله
غادة الكاميليا.. قصة حب وحلم محكية بأسلوب جميل وسلس
رواية من كلاسيكيات الأدب الفرنسي للكاتب الكسندر دوما الابن
وتظل الضغوط والأحكام المجتمعية سواء صائبة أو خاطئة
لها أثر قوي في تشكيل القواعد والحدود في الحياة العامة للمجتمع

Αριστούργημα!

Ho capito solo dopo aver iniziato la lettura de "La signora delle camelie" che non stavo leggendo un'opera dello stesso Dumas de "Il Conte di Montecristo", ma ammetto che anche Dumas figlio si difende bene con le parole. Una prosa elegante e piacevole, non eccessivamente pesante come altri classici ai quali mi sono accostata. La storia di Marguerite Duval, pur essendo datata, parliamo infatti di circa 150 anni fa, è molto attuale. Marguerite è una bellissima ragazza soprannominata appunto "Signora delle camelie" perché proprio attraverso questo fiore, rende chiara la sua disponibilità a sordidi incontri. Ebbene sì, è una delle mantenute più famose di Parigi, una prostituta d'alto bordo per la quale gli uomini sono disposti a dilapidare il loro patrimonio pur di gravitare nella sua orbita. Una storia non solo triste, perché davvero tocca il cuore in tanti passaggi, ma soprattutto amara che pone tanti spunti di riflessione sui facili giudizi ai quali, tutti, talvolta cediamo. Una frase mi ha colpito tanto del libro:

 "Tanto più la vita di queste donne incuriosisce e fa rumore tanto più la loro morte passa inosservata".

Se non lo avete letto e volete accostarvi a un classico non eccessivamente impegnativo, "La signora delle camelie" fa al caso vostro

غادة الكاميليا وجمال غادة الكاميليا . روايه تخرجك من مزاج سئ وواقع اسود . روايه تضحك وتبكيك . تسعدك وتحزنك . روايه تمثل البساطه والعنف . تمثل الحلم والواقع . كل ذلك واكثر فى خليط مميز يسحرك ويجبرك على السمو والعظمه . شعور رائع بعد قرائتها

غادة الكامليا هي من تلك الروايات التي تستحق وصف (الرواية الطفرة) ففيها ترى قصة فريدة في حينها , وتندمج فيها وتعشقها , هي رواية عن الحب , عن ذلك الشعور اللإرادي الذي ينتابنا تجاه أشخاص قد لا تربطنا بهم أي صلة , هي رواية تحبها وتحب شخوصها.

Best book I read in January 2021

¿Hace cuánto tiempo un libro no me había hecho estar a punto del llanto? Honestamente no lo recuerdo, pero con esta novela he tenido que parar en algunas partes (sobre todo hacia el final) para continuar leyendo, ya que el sentimiento me ganaba.

La historia de Marguerite Gautier y Armand Duval es tan bella y triste a la vez, está tan cargada de emociones que logras sentir lo que cada uno de ellos siente, y eres testigo del desarrollo y crecimiento de su relación.

No está de más decir que esta novela me ha encantado en su totalidad; desde sus personajes, la trama, la forma de estar narrada, y por qué no decirlo, el final. Y claro, por mencionar algo más, su inicio es de los que seguramente recordaré hasta de memoria:

“En mi opinión, no se pueden crear personajes sino después de haber estudiado mucho a los hombres, del mismo modo que no se puede hablar una lengua sino se la ha aprendido seriamente.
Como todavía no he llegado a la edad de inventar, me limito a relatar.”

¡Ampliamente recomendable!

I really liked the way this story was written, through memories and letters, it really gave it a specific atmosphere. I thought it was a very sad but poetic story. (3.5)

Стефан Цвайг, съвременник на Дюма-син, в своите мемоари “Светът от вчерашния ден” дава изключително интересен поглед към този роман: като образец на една псевдоидеалистична европейска литература, заляла Европа през викторианската епоха, заедно с Дикенс. Всички нелицеприятни реалности са заметени под килима, за сметка на морализаторски патос, безпочвена сантименталност и изчистване на сюжета от провокации и неблагоприличие.

Не бях поглеждала от този ъгъл историята на клетата девойка. Но има резон. Маргьорит е твърде обсебена от драматизма на ситуацията, без никакъв по-широк поглед и себеосъзнаване или протест. Любимият и пък се отказва някак твърде лесно - подчинява се на авторитета на едно общество и поколение, за което моралът е доста гъвкавo понятие. Мъжът може да “попалува”, стига да е дискретен, но жената в това уравнение неизменно е пропаднала ул��чница, макар и с “чиста душа”. А смъртта, разбира се, задоволява изцяло моралното “изискване” на времето - какво да направиш в тази невъзможна ситуация, освен да вземеш да умреш?! Чиста работа. Протестът изобщо не е предвиден.

И все пак… И все пак Дюма-син е повече от това, вероятно затова и “Травиата” се е превърнала в тогавашната велика “екранизация” на оперната сцена. Макар гроите да страдат от слепота и сантименталност, самата книга е повече от сбора на героите си, все пак е камък, пропукал маската на лицемерието на епохата, от която ще избуят Зола и Мопасан.

Basada en sucesos reales de la vida de su autor, la dama de las camelias es quizá uno de los clásicos esenciales de la literatura francesa y la inspiración para piezas tan famosas como la traviata o una más contemporánea moulin rouge.

La historia tiene dos personajes centrales, Marguerite, una cortesana que vive rodeada del lujo decadente que sus amantes están dispuestos a proveer a cambio de su compañía, y Armand, un joven que aunque vive bien no posee la fortuna necesaria para permitirse el lujo que constituye el amor de aquella mujer. Y sin embargo la anhela. Y contra todo pronóstico, la enamora.

La dama de las camelias nos permite sumergirnos en un Paris de frivolidades, pasiones pagadas y emociones intensas que parecieren no durar. Nos muestra la redención de una cortesana por el amor de un hombre casi ingenuo que se ve preso tanto de su propio amor como de sus celos enfermizos oscilando entre la fascinación y el destrato.

La novela está narrada de forma hábil desde la voz de un tercer personaje cuya presencia no es más que un instrumento para relatar la pena de Armand y la tragedia de aquel amor prohibido porque entre palcos, joyas y ramilletes de flores existió siempre un lujo que Marguerite no podía permitirse codiciar y fue ese amor desinteresado.

La Dame aux Camélias is a beautiful novel about the tragic character of Marguerite, inspired by women that Alexandre Dumas fils knew in real life and his own tragedy of losing his mother very young. He was an illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay and novelist Alexandre Dumas. His father took him very young from his mother because the law allowed that, which inspired him to write about tragic female characters.

Marguerite is a tragic, vulnerable and heroic character we follow through her life in Paris where she works as a courtesan, her love with the main man character,  and eventually her agony and death by tuberculosis.

Marguerite was the character that I really loved and found very deep and realistic and I could understand her in her suffering very well. In the beginning, she was closed- hearted to the love of men, because of awareness about the most hidden motives and complexity of men's selfishness. She was very smart and could read others intentions very well, she knew the man's heart and refused to lie to herself in any way. I find her clear-sightedness quite refreshing, especially in the hypocritical, self-deceiving and self-righteous world.

“Then,” continued Marguerite, “you were the only person before whom it seemed to me, from the first, that I could think and speak freely. All those who come about women like me have an interest in calculating their slightest words, in thinking of the consequences of their most insignificant actions. Naturally we have no friends. We have selfish lovers who spend their fortunes, riot on us, as they say, but on their own vanity. For these people we have to be merry when they are merry, well when they want to sup, sceptics like themselves. We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down and of ruining our credit.”

On the surface, she looks vain and craves materialistic things, but a romance with Armand reveals her idealistic and unselfish hidden nature and thirst for empathy and intimacy.

“Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”


In the first real conversation with Armand, Marguerite shows her opinion about the love of men based on her past experiences and what does she seeks in her lover that is very hard to find.

“But I forewarn you I must be free to do as I please, without giving you the slightest details what I do. I have long wished for a young lover, who should be young and not self-willed, loving without distrust, loved without claiming the right to it. I have never found one. Men, instead of being satisfied in obtaining for a long time what they scarcely hoped to obtain once, exact from their mistresses a full account of the present, the past, and even the future. As they get accustomed to her, they want to rule her, and the more one gives them the more exacting they become. If I decide now on taking a new lover, he must have three very rare qualities: he must be confiding, submissive, and discreet.”


The contrast of Marguerite love for Amando was his love for her, that we can even debate in calling love, rather infatuation and selfish obsession. I usually not on board for stereotypical opinions about the major differences between men and women on topics of love and sexuality, but this story can start a great conversation about the problems of the immaturity of some men when it comes to romance. Indeed Marguerite showed immeasurably greater maturity than Armando.

“You are right,” I said, letting my head sink on her knees; “but I love you madly.”
“Well, my friend, you must either love me a little less or understand me a little better. ”

Some people could think that this is a story about impossible love because of outside circumstances, but the story shows us that great loves are not killed by outside situation and other people, but buy inside matters of selfishness, lack of understanding and communication. Armand great love turned to hate when he thought it was no longer reciprocated and showed that his ego was more important to him that Marguerite. He became obsessed with revenge and hurt Maurgerite in every way possible. In his later guilt and redemption he admits:

“Oh, how petty and vile is man when he is wounded in one of his narrow passions!”

Some could say that suffering she endured was her path of redemption for her as society viewed immoral life, but for me, this story uncovers greater ideas. From someone outside life, we can see the thing that is truly important and that is the person's heart. As we can see in the story someone flaws, wrong ways and sins don't determine or decrease their goodness or their ability to love whole-heartedly as Marguerite did. In the state when she is continuously hurt, mocked and humiliated by Armand, her love stays strong as a rock.

“You are good, your soul has generosity unknown to many women who perhaps despise you, and are less worthy than you.”

I really like the idea of the opening our eyes and hearts for all people, despite their moral choices on which we don't need to agree to respect and love them because in the end true virtues are hidden deeply and often people are much more than they seem. I would like to finish off with this quote that sums up the main spirit behind this book that made me love it so much.

n  “Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon. Jesus was full of love for souls wounded by the passions of men; he loved to bind up their wounds and to find in those very wounds the balm which should heal them. Thus he said to the Magdalen: "Much shall be forgiven thee because thou hast loved much," a sublimity of pardon which can only have called forth a sublime faith.

Why do we make ourselves more strict than Christ? Why, holding obstinately to the opinions of the world, which hardens itself in order that it may be thought strong, do we reject, as it rejects, souls bleeding at wounds by which, like a sick man's bad blood, the evil of their past may be healed, if only a friendly hand is stretched out to lave them and set them in the convalescence of the heart?”n

" لابد أننا ارتكبنا الكثير من الآثام قبل أن نُولد.. أو أننا سننعم بالكثير من السعادة بعد أن نموت.. وإلا ما احتوت الحياة كل هذا العذاب وهذه الآلام "
إلى مرغريت جوتييه، التي عاشت بغيًّا وماتت قديسة
15.08.2019

I wish people could still express themselves the way they do in the classics.
After I got a few chapters in, I really couldn't put this book down, which is unusual for me, for the genre. The story is such a train wreck of emotion and life that that must be why it pulls the heartstrings of so many people. It is all so raw.
I liked the author's choice to make it a story told by Armond after the fact, so he was remembering it exactly, but could see it all in a big picture view, the beginning, and what and how things were leading to the end. He wasn't stuck in the middle of the emotion somewhere.
I loved that it wasn't simple and sweet, but love and jealousy and anger and fear and anguish are all balled up and spurted out.
I read something that talked about how people were worried, at the time, that this would promote the "kept woman" way of life, or of men seeking after them. The narrator (and hence, the author) are very careful to explain that they don't believe this to be typical behavior but that was a very exceptional woman. I found that amusing and wish that if there must be 'bad', that the 'bad' of our day was as pretty and clean as the 'bad' of theirs.