by Lydie Salvayre · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020339872
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«Les belles âmes» is the novel by Lydie Salvayre, published by Seuil in paperback in 2000 (155 pages, in French).
A travel agency organizes visits to poor neighborhoods in Europe, from Paris to Milan, with stops in Brussels, Cologne and Berlin. The tourists believe they have good intentions, but everything goes wrong because of Jason, the entertainer, and Olympe, his girlfriend. Lydie Salvayre examines humanitarian language and the distance between discourse and misery.
«Les belles âmes» is part of Seuil's Cadre rouge collection and carries the subtitle «roman».
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in satire on solidarity tourism and humanitarian discourse.
Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.
