num_pages: 192
description: Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her life something substantial to withstand the unreality which surrounds her. Alone, stranded in Paris after her Polish husband is jailed, Marya is befriended by an English couple who take her home with them. Slowly they overwhelm her with their passions as Marya drifts into an affair with the husband, an affair the wife seems strangely eager to promote. The husband demands, the wife fosters, and Marya is left - as always - to comfort herself.
language: English
title: Quartet
titlecomplete: Quartet
characters: Stephan Zelli, H.J. Heidler, Lois Heidler, Marya Zelli
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 2274
places: Paris
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company