{"id":4863,"date":"2021-05-09T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T19:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?page_id=4863"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:58:24","slug":"top-10-novels-about-adultery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/have-experienced-them-all\/top-10-novels-about-adultery\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 novels about adultery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why would a series around adultery attract me ? I will use here the citation from the\n Guardian’s article<\/a> because it made me smile. Alexandre Dumas <\/span>fils <\/em>\n said “The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them and sometimes three”. The mechanisms of adultery intrigue me and I would love to build a taxonomy of it. The why’s, the how’s, the what’s to be able to understand\n better.\n
This series is introduced by Douglas Kennedy, when his novel “Isabelle in the Afternoon” came out, a story about an affair between a young American and a married French woman, that lasts three decades. There must be so many\n novels on adultery, I wonder how Douglas Kennedy made his choice. But I quite like the selection, at least regarding those that I had already read. <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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The Ten Books<\/span><\/p>\n

The End of The Affair – Graham Greene (1951)\n
Anna Karenine – Leo Tolstoy (1877)\n
Foreign Affairs – Alison Lurie (1984)\n
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (1982)
<\/span>\n Madame Bovary<\/a> – Gustave Flaubert (1857)\n
\n The Easter Parade<\/a> – Richard Yates (1976)\n
\n Rabbit, Run<\/a> – John Updike (1960)\n
\n The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/a> – James M Cain (1934)\n
\n The Awakening<\/a> – Kate Chopin (1899)\n
\n Deception<\/a> – Philip Roth (1990)<\/span>\n
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Why would a series around adultery attract me ? I will use here the citation from the Guardian’s article because it made me smile. Alexandre Dumas fils said “The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them and sometimes three”. The mechanisms of adultery intrigue me and I would love to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17507,"parent":3170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4863","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20488,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4863\/revisions\/20488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}