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...