Quand on choisit d’écrire un classique, mieux vaut bien choisir l’entame. Voici 5 exemples de débuts de livres cultes écrits en anglais.
1. Call me Ishmael.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
4. I am an invisible man.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
5. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)