by Christiane Rochefort · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253010265
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«Le repos du guerrier» is the novel by Christiane Rochefort, published by Librairie générale française in paperback (286 pages, in French).
Geneviève Le Theil, a young Parisian bourgeois woman, arrives in the provinces to collect an inheritance and mistakenly enters the room of a stranger about to commit suicide. After saving him, she feels fascinated by Renaud Sarti, an alcoholic ex-combatant, and takes him into her apartment. The novel portrays a destructive relationship of dependence, with echoes of rebellion.
Novel originally published in 1958; this Le Livre de Poche edition offers the complete text in French.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and intimate stories about complex female characters.
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.
