Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women s writing engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-life experiences. Authors covered include well-established names, the new generation of writers who first came to the fore of the French literary scene in the 1990s and whose work has now matured into an important uvre, as well as new emerging writers of the 2000s, whose work is already attracting scholarly and critical attention. Within the...

Dans ce nouveau millenaire, le champ litteraire en France continue a nous offrir des ecrivains et des ecrivaines etincelant(e)s, qui ne craignent pas de provoquer et de prendre des risques litteraires et philosophiques. Plus que jamais, les ecrivaines, qui ont longtemps lutte pour etre reconnues comme artistes et penseuses egales aux hommes, se trouvent au premier plan des experimentations litteraires contemporaines. Aventures et experiences litteraires identifie et explore les mouvements cles de l'ecriture des femmes au cours de la premiere decennie du vingt-et-unieme siecle,...

"Women s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France" is a collection of critical essays on recent literature written by women in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues, and trends in women s writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century and engages critically with the work of individual authors through close readings. Authors covered include major prizewinners, best-selling authors, and established and new writers whose work has attracted scholarly attention. Topics covered in the essays include translation, popular fiction, society, history, war, family relations, violence,...