by Joseph Kessel · Aymá. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420950013
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«Belle de Jour» is the novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, published by Aymá in paperback (190 pages, in Spanish).
Séverine Serizy, a young married bourgeois woman, hides behind her apparent conjugal life a second existence as a luxury prostitute. The conflict between marriage and her impulses pushes her toward a forbidden world, in a novel about repression, desire, and the construction of identity within a hypocritical society.
The Spanish translation is by Ángel Fernández Santos. The book belongs to the Grandes novelas collection.
It will interest those seeking a classic of French literature and a novel about double morality and the psychology of desire.
Joseph Kessel, also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
