Celestine becomes as corrupt as the men who uses her in this satire of French society. 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.
Les Chats : À travers 17 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
Sylvain Trias, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Renard, Charles Perrault, Jean La Fontaine, Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Octave Mirbeau, Rudyard Kipling, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, Hyppolite Taine, Champfleury, François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif
audiobook
9 Meurtres à huis clos : Les enquêtes cultes
Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Alan Poe, Octave Mirbeau, GK Chesterton, Henry Cauvain
audiobook
Balzac, vie prodigieuse, amours et mort
Octave Mirbeau
book
Les Hantises de l'Hiver
Octave Mirbeau
audiobook
La Folle
Octave Mirbeau
audiobook
Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Octave Mirbeau
audiobookbook
Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre
Octave Mirbeau
book
Journal d’une femme de chambre
Octave Mirbeau
audiobook
Le journal d'une femme de chambre : Lu par Karin Viard
Octave Mirbeau
audiobook
Le Jardin des supplices
Octave Mirbeau
book
La maréchale
Octave Mirbeau
book
Chez l'Illustre Ecrivain
Octave Mirbeau
book
Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
book
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Octave Mirbeau, Douglas Jarman, Richard Ings
book
Monsieur de Phocas
Jean Lorrain, Francis Amery
book
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence : The Black Feast
book
L'Innocente : The Victim
Gabriele D'Annunzio
book
Great Shadow : (and other stories)
Mario de Sa-Carneiro
book