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Belle De Jour Joseph Kessel Books

The French seem to have a knack for literary eroticism. This book leans more to the psychological side of things rather than explicit sex scenes but is still an interesting and engaging novel of desire, submission and infidelity. The main character lives a normal upper middle class existence with her husband a successful surgeon. She is happy as far as she knows until she hears gossip in her social circle of a woman like her working in a brothel for a little extra cash.
Fascinated and revolted she eventually finds her way to a brothel and experiences something that fulfils a deep need in her psyche. The deception and pressure of living two lives, one respectable the other not, eventually cause heartache and ruin.
I enjoyed it very much, this book is not thick so can easily be read in a weekend. If you enjoy French literature or erotic literature or both then you will probably enjoy this.


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Belle De Jour Joseph Kessel Books Reviews

Often, eroticism is in the mind rather than in the body. This is an excellent book without explicits and leaves a lot to imagination.
A masterpiece requires antecedents. The Kessel novel is the antecedent to Senor Bunuel's exquisite master work, the film illuminated by La Deneuve.
Very well written.Kessel casts his characters with clarity and conviction. I saw the movie first, and in my opinion, the book was much better, as it usually is.
Got it because I saw the 1960's movie. It was better as I got into it, but male/female relationships, at least in the US, are so different that this seems very far in the past.
I picked up the novella for Belle De Jour after watching the 1967 Catherine Deneuve film adaptation for the hundredth time. The book is a novella so it's not as long as it perhaps could have been but it is definitely fuller bodied and more fulfilling experience then the movie is. Every couple years I dig out my copy when I'm in the mood for a quick, satisfying read.
Kessel's book was first published in French in 1928 and served as the basis for Luis Bunuel's 1967 film of the same title. Without going into detail, there are significant differences, especially in the addition of the sadomasochist dream sequences appearing throughout the film. Kessel's book does not have these puzzling fantasies and the two conclude in different ways. This said, Kessel's book, in translation, is an excellent piece of story-telling.
The French seem to have a knack for literary eroticism. This book leans more to the psychological side of things rather than explicit sex scenes but is still an interesting and engaging novel of desire, submission and infidelity. The main character lives a normal upper middle class existence with her husband a successful surgeon. She is happy as far as she knows until she hears gossip in her social circle of a woman like her working in a brothel for a little extra cash.
Fascinated and revolted she eventually finds her way to a brothel and experiences something that fulfils a deep need in her psyche. The deception and pressure of living two lives, one respectable the other not, eventually cause heartache and ruin.
I enjoyed it very much, this book is not thick so can easily be read in a weekend. If you enjoy French literature or erotic literature or both then you will probably enjoy this.