by Joseph Kessel · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432032301
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Belle de Jour is a novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, published in 1928. The story follows Séverine Serizy, a young and beautiful Parisian woman who, unable to experience sexual pleasure with her husband, decides to seek satisfaction by secretly working in a luxury brothel in the afternoons. Under the name Belle de Jour, she immerses herself in a world of fantasies and erotic encounters, while maintaining a facade of respectability before her husband and society. The novel explores themes of desire, repression, hypocrisy, and the search for female identity in a bourgeois context.
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.
