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Hélas, Riri, je dois malheureusement t'informer que Mme Mc Naught devant l'énorme succès du livre "Whitney my love" a réécrit une nouvelle version il y a peu de temps et que celle-ci contient des scènes inédites....
j'ai bien peur que la scène de la cravache ait été rajoutée sciemment par l'auteur....

on se demande encore pourquoi ?

voici son explication lors d'une interview (apparemment les coups de cravaches font partie de l'ancienne scène et elle a altéré ce passage lors de sa réédition) :

"When I went to work on this new version, I didn't have the slightest intention of altering the scene you refer to "The spanking scene." I knew it had caused some comments, and I knew there were a few readers who found it objectionable, but in my memory, the scene was fine the way it was, and I fully intended to leave it that way. And then I read it again after all these years...and I didn't like it. It made me feel...uneasy...queasy. I altered it."

quant à savoir pourquoi elle a éprouvé le désir de réécrire "Whitney my love", voici son explication :

"Whitney, My Love was already scheduled to go into hardcover production when I suddenly came up with the idea of lengthening and enhancing the ending of the novel in order to satisfy readers who've always wanted to read more about Clayton and Whitney Westmoreland - but without creating any of the drawbacks of a sequel.

I have always known the original book ended a little abruptly and could have had a richer, more satisfying ending. In fact, I've long suspected that readers' constant demand for a sequel stems from that somewhat abrupt ending. In order to overcome my own objections to sequels, I wanted the new pages to pick up where the original novel concluded and to continue to the new end, without ever jumping years ahead.

Once I conceived the plan and figured out how to accomplish it, I was so delighted and so enthusiastic that I also hired an architect/artist to do a detailed drawing of Clayton Westmoreland's estate so that readers could actually see it as I'd seen it in my imagination. By now, all my changes were holding up production, but if I hadn't run out of time, I would have also paid the same architect/artist do several other drawings of other scenes in the novel.

When I invested my time and money in all this, I thought I was doing something nice for my readers. I was trying to give them an unexpected little "gift" that they would enjoy whether they bought the hardcover or the later paperback version when it comes out. It's a little disheartening to discover that all my efforts and good intentions can translate into some sort of gimmick intended to dupe readers. Until I read Sandy's impassioned messages here, it never, ever, occurred to me that anyone would think me unethical for trying to make a beloved book even a little better and a little more fulfilling when it was released in hardcover/paperback."

La première mouture de "Whitney" fut écrite en 1985, la deuxième comportant des scènes réécrites, fut écrite en 1999.

pour celles qui ne saississent pas l'anglais, elle explique que sous la pression des fans désirant une "suite" à Whitney, elle a préféfé réécrire le livre en altérant légèrement la fin. Elle avoue avoir modifié la scène de la cravache et celle du viol....

N'ayant pas lu le livre, je laisse le soin à celles qui l'ont lu d'expliquer celle du viol (dans l'interview, elle persiste pour dire qu'il n'y a jamais eu "viol" mais que les lectrices l'ont interprété comme ça suite à une remarque de Stephen à Clayton)...

moralité : achetez en VO ! achetez en VO ! achetez en VO !

Cessons d'alimenter le marché français qui prend ses lectrices pour des demeurées .... mais qui sont de plus en plus nombreuses à se rendre compte que ce qu'elle achète en VF ne correspond plus du tout à la réalité du roman original.... alors même que le prix, lui, du roman VF, ne diminue pas....

quelle ironie...