by Octave Mirbeau · Bookking International · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877141673
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«Journal d'une femme de chambre» is the novel by Octave Mirbeau, published by Bookking International in paperback (415 pages, in French).
The novel is set in France at the end of the 19th century and follows Célestine, a Parisian chambermaid who enters the service of a bourgeois family in Normandy. Through the protagonist's diary, Octave Mirbeau constructs a critical view of social hypocrisy, class relations and the morality of the era.
The work was originally published in 1900; this edition belongs to the Classiques Français collection.
For readers of French fiction and classics who want to read the work in its original language.
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.
