Good Mother, Bad Mother. The Depiction of Mother Figures in Agnès Desarthe's "Un secret sans importance and Mangez-moi"

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, grade: 68, University of Birmingham, course: BA Modern Languages, language: English, abstract: Agnès Desarthe, winner of the prestigious "prix du Livre Inter" and writer of adult and children's fiction alike, examines a variety of themes in her works, including one of the most perennial in writing by women: motherhood. Francesca Counihan discusses the fact that more and more French women authors have "come to prominence [including] more discreet presences such as Agnès Desarthe." When her second novel Un secret sans importance was published in 1996, Desarthe was indeed "une quasi-inconnue" but with several more novels published in the intervening years, a good number of which were translated into English, Desarthe's works were more frequently disseminated and discussed by the time her seventh novel, Mangez-moi, was published in 2006.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Smith
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9783668010826
• ISBN: 978-3-668-01082-6
• No. of pages: 20
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 45 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V301483; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V301483
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies