Query: 1925 French novels or Novels about French prostitution
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Querelle of Brest
Belle de Jour (novel)
Raboliot
The Counterfeiters (novel)
Our Lady of the Flowers
Nana (novel)
Marthe (novel)
The 120 Days of Sodom
Evidence from documents: Querelle of Brest: '''''Querelle of Brest''''' () is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was written mostly in 1945 and first published anonymously in 1947, limited to 460 numbered copies, with illustrations by Jean Cocteau. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Georges Querelle, its protagonist, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for ''Querelle'' (1982), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film.
Belle de Jour (novel): Novels about French prostitution: When Monsieur Husson mentions an acquaintance who works at a local brothel, Séverine becomes curious about prostitution as a means of satisfying her desires. She uses the pseudonym "Belle de Jour" (Morning Glory), as she works from two to five o'clock each day, returning to her unaware husband in the evening.
French: a novel by French author Joseph Kessel, published in 1928 by Gallimard.
Raboliot: '''''Raboliot''''' is a French novel, written by Maurice Genevoix, published in 1925.
The Counterfeiters (novel): '''''The Counterfeiters''''' () is a 1925 novel by French author , first published in .
Our Lady of the Flowers: The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in prison – and the highly erotic, often explicitly sexual, stories are spun to assist his masturbation. Jean-Paul Sartre called it "the epic of masturbation".
Nana (novel): ''Nana'' tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire.
Marthe (novel): '''''Marthe, histoire d'une fille''''' (English: ''Marthe, the Story of a Girl'' - where "girl" has the implication "prostitute" ) was the first novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, published in 1876.
The 120 Days of Sodom: '''''The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage''''' () is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade,