by Joseph Kessel · FRANCE LOISIRS / GALLIMARD · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422601593
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«Belle de jour» is the novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, published by France Loisirs / Gallimard in hardcover (210 pages).
Séverine Serizy, a young bourgeois woman married to a surgeon, begins to frequent a brothel run by Anaïs in the afternoons. Her double life seems stable until Marcel, a criminal in love with her, bursts in and puts everything at risk. The novel addresses social hypocrisy and female desire.
Work originally published in 1928; this 1975 edition includes the translation by Ángel Fernández Santos.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction looking for short stories about desire, hypocrisy, and double life.
Joseph Kessel, also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
