by Alison Lurie · Rivages * · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869302532
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«Des gens comme les autres» is the novel by Alison Lurie, published by Rivages in paperback (194 pages, in French).
The novel follows Janet «Belle» Smith, a writer of modest success who spends a summer at an artists' colony to write. In her diary she confronts life alongside painters, writers and poets, and the question of whether artists are ordinary people. The arrival of Anna May unsettles the group, bringing out jealousy and petty spite.
Translated from English by Marie-Claude Peugeot, this French edition was published in 1989; the original, «Real People», dates from 1969. It belongs to Rivages' Littérature étrangère collection.
For readers of literary fiction seeking ironic portraits of the art world and creativity.
Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.
