by Octave Mirbeau · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070375363
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«Le Journal d'une femme de chambre» is the satirical novel by Octave Mirbeau, published by Folio in paperback (512 pages, in French).
The maid Célestine arrives at a mansion in rural Normandy and records in her diary everything that happens between her masters and the servants. Her gaze uncovers the miseries, hypocrisies and double standards of the French bourgeoisie of the Belle Époque: a scathing satire of human pettiness.
The novel was originally published in 1900. This edition from the Folio classique collection includes the annotated edition by Noël Arnaud.
For readers of French literary classics who appreciate an uncompromising social satire.
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
