Ernaux, Annie

In this dissertation, I examine how, in the works of the French-speaking contemporary women writers Annie Ernaux, Agota Kristof and Farida Belghoul, notions of doubleness and/or schizophrenia represent at the literary level the contradictory pressures or double bind that these w…

In the Francophone novel of the late twentieth century, new images of women emerge. The present study explores the relationship between daily life and female identity. It demonstrates how the notion of past and present daily life as developed in L'Invention du quotidien by Miche…