Les hauts de Hurlevent: amour, haine et vengeance (2022)

Inaugurated with "Withering Heights" by Emily Brontë, the fourth season of the collection "The great novels of the scandal" embraces the history of masterpieces among the most burning and transgressive of literature, which have not lost anything of their acuity. Released in 1847, this romantic work against the backdrop of cursed passion and revenge, proved to be out of step with his time and stunned criticism. Because if the story stages the romantic feelings between Cathy and Heathcliff, the bastard adopted, it also deploys an implacable revenge. In this tale, Emily Brontë addresses all the taboos: the family, whose toxicity she denounces; incest, through the prohibited connection between a brother and an adoption sister; The evil, finally, to which it gives the wild beauty of Heathcliff. By adapting it to the cinema in 1939 with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, William Wyler helped to hoist "Withering Heights", the only novel by Emily Brontë, to the rank of myth.