by Madeleine Bourdouxhe · Daunt Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781907970535
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«La Femme de Gilles» is the novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe published by Daunt Books in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The novel follows Elisa, Gilles's wife, whose devotion to him is absolute and whose life centers on waiting for his return from work. Domestic happiness shatters when Gilles is drawn to Victorine, Elisa's younger sister; Elisa then sinks into such deep anguish that she no longer recognizes herself.
Work originally published in 1937; the English edition, translated by Faith Evans, was published in 2014.
A title for readers of twentieth-century European classics and of short novels about intimacy and romantic disillusionment.
