The Diary of a Chambermaid - Brossura

Mirbeau, Octave

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0946626820 ISBN 13: 9780946626823

Casa editrice: Dedalus Ltd, 1991

Riassunto

Often compared with Cleland's Fanny Hill and Sade's Justine and Juliette and dismissed by the more prurient critics as pornography, The Diary of a Chambermaid was written as a satire of Parisian society in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair. Mirbeau brings a journalist's analytical eye to Celestine's adventures as she loses her innocence and becomes as corrupt and depraved as the men who exploited her.
Since its publication in 1900 it has never ceased to shock and fascinate its readers and has been made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1946 and Luis Bunuel in 1964. It takes the essential message of Torture Garden a stage further by its greater realism.

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Recensione:

'Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Celestine is one of the great female characters in literature.' --Rhoda Koenig in The Sunday Times

L'autore:

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a leader of the Decadent movement.bHe producing works in reportage, art and literary criticism, travel writing, fiction, and drama, he inspired everything from surrealism to gonzo journalism.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dedalus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0946626820
• ISBN 13: 9780946626823
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 315