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Mrs. Craddock est le premier tourbillon annonciateur du maelström des veuves où s'engouffre l'oeuvre de Somerset Maugham. La future Mrs. Craddock, Bertha Ley, jouit d'un vaste domaine, d'une belle rente et d'un nom illustre. Elle vit seule avec une tante dont l'esprit n'a rien à envier à Madame du Deffand. Bertha Ley se nourrit de Montaigne, de Marc Aurèle et de Madame de Sévigné; elle s'est mis en tète d'épouser un de ses métayers, Mr. Craddock, parce qu'il a des mains fortes et viriles, parce que ses botte font naître en elle un frisson de plaisir, par leur seule taille, qui suggère une fermeté de caractère et une autorité des plus rassurantes. Sommerset Maugham se révèle d'une rosserie réjouissante. Peu à peu il distille un acide cynique qui ronge les pages d'abord imprégnées de niaiserie sentimentale. Les belles bottes de Mr. Craddock broient une à une toutes les illusions de son épouse. [...] Et Sommerset Maugham de laisser entendre que souvent, dans un roman d'amour, le livre de la vie pour l'un est écrit en italiques, pour l'autre, il est composé en grosses lettres capitales. Linda Lè
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