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Claire Berest

Biography

Claire Berest

Claire Berest is the author of the novels MIKADO; THE EMPTY ORCHESTRA; BELLEVUE; RIEN N’EST NOIR, winner of the ELLE Readers Grand Prize; ARTIFICES; and two works of nonfiction, CLASS STRUGGLE: Why I Resigned from National Education, and LOST CHILDREN: An Investigation in the Minors Brigade. Her most recent novel is GABRIËLE, written with her sister, Anne Berest. Artifices.

Claire Berest

Books by Claire Berest

Gabriële
written by Anne Berest and Claire Berest, translated by Tina Kover - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, newly graduated from the most elite music school in Europe, meets a volcanic Spanish artist named Francis. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and fall headlong into a Paris that is experimenting with new forms of living, thinking and creating. Soon after marrying Francis, Gabriële meets Marcel, another young artist. Soon, Francis, Marcel and Gabriële are all involved in a fervent affair that will change the course of art history and redefine the avant-garde. As the Belle Epoque gives way to rebellion and revolution, and the world descends into the devastation of World War I, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Gabriële Buffet revolutionize art and open up new ways of seeing and thinking.