Le jeune fille bourgeoise - The middle class maiden
Surrounded by political upheaval, he plays the piano, paints watercolors: all the false occupations of a middle-class maiden in the nineteenth century. --I invert the problem: what is it which, in the practices of the middle-class maidens of those days, transcended her femininity and her class? What was the utopia of such activities? The middle-class maiden produced uselessly, stupidly, for herself, but she produced: it was her own form of expenditure.
