{"product_id":"the-girl-on-the-motorcycle-by-andre-pieyre-de-mandiargues","title":"The Girl on the Motorcycle by André Pieyre de Mandiargues","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEL Four Square \u003cbr\u003e1967 \u003cbr\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003e142 Pages \u003cbr\u003e11 x 18cm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndré 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libertalia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54124434358609,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/0785\/0577\/files\/2740.jpg?v=1782218013","url":"https:\/\/libertaliabooks.com\/products\/the-girl-on-the-motorcycle-by-andre-pieyre-de-mandiargues","provider":"Libertalia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}