Miss Rinee Moubaran

The two brothers, Du Goncourt, in this novel, depict the secret lives of the great landowners who raise their children to seek high positions by all means, and force their daughters to acquire manners suitable for salons, conversation, and appearing in what is called high society as if this were the only possible way of life. A novel that may have a theatrical character, making the speech and long dialogues of the characters the widest possible window on their painful emptiness and their failed search in advance for fulfillment that is impossible due to the poor means used to achieve it.