I hope that, like me, you'll be blown away by the extraordinary modernity of this book, both in its writing (thank you to the translator!) As its theme and heroin. Tess, in fact, does not resemble the idea we have of the women of his century. She is proud, she knows what she wants, she assumes. The Polanski film made me want to discover the book: it is a thousand times better ... It's halletant and exciting!