| Break of Day | |
| Author: | Colette |
| Title Orig: | La Naissance du jour |
| Translator: | Enid McLeod |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Publisher: | Flammarion |
| Pub Date: | 1928 |
| English Pub Date: | 1961 |
| Pages: | 245 |
Break of Day (French: '''La Naissance du jour''') is a 1928 novel by the French writer Colette. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Jacques Demy.[1]
Elaine Marks reviewed the book for The New York Times in 1961: "It may well be that, for some, Colette's Break of Day will appear to be a slightly precious treatise on the themes of nature and love. For others, it may well be a source of strength, a poetic, that is to say a rhythmical, response to the difficulties of growing old and dying, written by a woman who grew old and who died with comparable dignity and grace."[2]