La Belle Image (1941) is a novel by French writer Marcel Aymé that has been described as "Kafka's Metamorphosis in reverse.

La Belle Image was begun during the summer of 1940 and completed between September and October of that year.

Aymé believed that the war would last at least ten years, and his pessimistic mood is apparent throughout the novel.

[1] The work first appeared as a serial in Aujourd'hui, from 15 December 1940 to 14 January 1941, with illustrations by Chas Laborde [fr].

[1] La Belle Image is the story of Raoul Cerusier, an upstanding, hard-working, but suspicious businessman, whose dull and unattractive face is transformed into one that is young, handsome, and seductive.