La paz de las colmenas

"I think I don't love my husband anymore". The secret diary of Jeanne Bornand, the protagonist of this mythical novel and a typist, opens with this forceful and anthological sentence, a woman who has loved and has been loved, still young but close to ceasing to be so, who finds herself face to face with the strangeness of the life her choices have led her to. Relentlessly, with a subversive audacity and delicious touches of humor, she turns a powerful magnifying glass on conversations with her co-workers or a childhood friend, on the current mundane nature of her marriage, on women's complex relationship with beauty. and fashion and its link with the domestic space or its cerbal fear of aging... The whole of society falls under its ruthless criticism, all the more ferocious because it is tinged with the most perceptive irony.