The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Seria:
- Entail Books
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Le journal d'une femme de chambre
- Wydawnictwo:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Data wydania:
- 2015-05-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2015-05-01
- Liczba stron:
- 298
- Czas czytania
- 4 godz. 58 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781511992558
A French chambermaid, who has served in Paris, in the houses of the nobility, the bourgeois, and professional people, finally enters the service of a rich couple living in the country, and there begins to keep a diary. In describing the events of her daily life and the people about her, she is frequently reminded of episodes in her past, and digresses to relate them. Thus her diary becomes a piquant panorama of social life and institutions. It is a terrific social exposure, a grim social satire, crammed with humor, bitterness, and truth. It has been described by a French critic as "an attempt to show that nearly all the masters are low-lived wretches, and that nearly all the servants are as near like them as they know how to be." Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.