The Girl on the Motorcycle by André Pieyre de Mandiargues

NEL Four Square 
1967 
Paperback 
142 Pages 
11 x 18cm 

Condition: Good 

Originally published as La Motocyclette, this surreal and erotic novel follows Rebecca, a young woman who leaves behind her conventional life and sets out on a motorcycle journey across Europe. As the landscape passes around her, the physical journey becomes a stream of memory, desire, fantasy, and self-discovery. Blending sensuality, modern alienation, and dreamlike imagery, Mandiargues creates a distinctive work of 20th-century French literature that explores freedom, identity, and escape. Later adapted into the cult film Girl on a Motorcycle starring  Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull, the novel remains a key example of European erotic and experimental fiction.

André Pieyre de Mandiargues was a French writer and associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis, a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis.