by Octave Mirbeau · Pocket / Blanche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266042376
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«Journal d'une femme de chambre» is the classic novel by Octave Mirbeau, published by Pocket / Blanche in paperback (311 pages, in French).
Célestine, a maid of humble origins, discovers in each household pettiness, cowardice and vice. Her lucid gaze traverses the inner workings of the French Third Republic: bourgeois hypocrisy, taboos, rapacity and hidden crimes. The novel, with sexual obsession and eroticism, is a fierce indictment of stupidity and perversity.
This Pocket / Blanche edition dates from 1993; the work was originally published in 1900, in French.
For readers of French literary classics interested in social critique and an unflinching portrait of hypocrisy and sexuality.
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.
