by Victoria Mas · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226442109
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The novel «Le Bal des folles» by Victoria Mas, published by Albin Michel in paperback, has 256 pages and is in French.
In nineteenth-century Paris, the Salpêtrière hospital holds a fancy-dress ball every year in which the patients are exhibited before high society. After that party, the novel follows Eugénie, Louise and Geneviève, three confined women, and shows how the neurologist Charcot turns the ball into an experiment on madness and the female condition.
First novel by Victoria Mas, originally published in 2019 and winner of the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens 2019.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in nineteenth-century France, the history of psychiatry and female voices.
