Ebook {Epub PDF} La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

 · The Belgian writer Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s exquisite first novel, La Femme de Gilles, published in and translated by Faith Evans in , explores the pain of adultery. It is told mainly from the point of view of Elisa, the faithful wife who is in love with her Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. La Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle—written on the eve of World War II. Set among the dusty lanes and rolling valleys of rural s Belgium, La Femme de Gilles is the tale of a young mother, Elisa, whose world is overturned when she discovers that her husband, Gilles, has fallen in love with her younger sister, Victorine. Devastated, Elisa unravels/5.  · Madeleine Bourdouxhe was born in Belgium in Her first novel, La Femme de Gilles, was published in , but the outbreak of World War II interrupted her writing career, and her second book, A la recherche de Marie wasn't published until ISBN

by Madeleine Bourdouxhe La Femme de Gilles is a sensual and shattering novel about infidelity, lust, and the loneliness of losing the one thing that matters most. 'A marvellous, rediscovered novel about selfless love.'. Madeleine Bourdouxhe () published her first novel La Femme de Gilles in to great acclaim, and then she disappeared from the literary world, mostly due to the onset of World War II. An active member of the Resistance, Bourdouxhe refused to continue working with her French publisher, Éditions Gallimard, that had been taken over by the Nazis; however, she continued to write. But Madeleine Bourdouxhe's Elisa—the centerpiece of La femme de Gilles, and marginalized from the get-go by its clever title!—is massively betrayed by her cheerfully unrepentant husband on page eight. And Bourdouxhe's Elisa can't skip off to an artists' colony and seek revenge with a neurotic sculptor or hop a train down to the city.

Madeleine Bourdouxhe was born in Belgium in Her first novel, La Femme de Gilles, was published in , but the outbreak of World War II interrupted her writing career, and her second book, A la recherche de Marie wasn't published until Madeleine Bourdouxhe moved from Liège to Paris in with her parents, where she lived for the duration of World War I. After returning to Brussels, she studied philosophy. In she married a mathematics teacher, Jacques Muller. The marriage lasted until his death in Her daughter was born the day the Germans invaded Belgium in May La Cité ardente a aussi été un vivier de talents, à commencer par la plume acérée de Madeleine Bourdouxhe, admirée par Simone de Beauvoir elle-même.