1st Edition
Excess and Transgression in Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction The Discourse of Madness
By Alison Holland
Copyright 2009
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Alison Holland’s innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer’s frequently neglected novels and short stories, L’Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme rompue. In illuminating the density and rich complexity of Beauvoir’s style, Holland challenges the often accepted view that Beauvoir’s writing is flat, detached, and controlled, revealing, rather, that... Read more
Contents: Introduction; L'Invitée; Les Mandarins; Les Belles Images; La Femme rompue; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr. Alison Holland, Associate Dean for Student Wellbeing, formerly Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Principal Lecturer in French, Northumbria University, UK
'Certainly for readers accustomed to think of the author as a largely autobiographical and hence relatively realistic writer, these analyses open new perspectives, and Holland is successful in her avowed aim of making it more difficult to speak of 'Beauvoir's indifference to style.' ... this in an interesting and closely argued book which has a great many useful insights to offer.' New Zealand Journal of French Studies
