La mujer de Gilles

Synopsis of La mujer de Gilles

«La mujer de Gilles» is the novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe, published by Txalaparta in paperback (136 pages, in Spanish).

Elisa, wife and mother, lives devoted to Gilles, and that absorbing love becomes the center of her existence. The novel, written in 1937, explores jealousy, passion and the absence of love, and shows how the apparent calm of a relationship can hide an excess of feelings that ends up leading to a tragic decision.

First Spanish edition in the GEBARA collection. Work originally written in French under the title «La Femme de Gilles» and published in 1937; translation by María Luisa Guindulain Gómez.

Recommended for readers of twentieth-century European fiction interested in female characters and in French literature translated into Spanish.