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Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé
Leah D. Hewitt
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Description for Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé
Paperback. Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part biography, this book seeks mainly to shed light on how these writers' works illustrate the fine line that separates fact from fiction. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
In order to write said Simone de Beauvoir, the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted. She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde-illustrate that producing autobiography is like performing a tightrope act on the slippery line between fact and fiction. Autobiographical Tightropes emphasizes the tension in the works of these major writers as they move in and out of experience and literature, violating the neat boundaries between genres and confusing the ... Read more
In order to write said Simone de Beauvoir, the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted. She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde-illustrate that producing autobiography is like performing a tightrope act on the slippery line between fact and fiction. Autobiographical Tightropes emphasizes the tension in the works of these major writers as they move in and out of experience and literature, violating the neat boundaries between genres and confusing the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803272583
SKU
V9780803272583
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About Leah D. Hewitt
Leah D. Hewitt is an associate professor of French at Amherst College.
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