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

Seminar Paper , 2015 , 13 Pages , Grade: 68

French Studies - Literature

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.

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

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• College: University of Birmingham
• Course: BA Modern Languages
• Grade: 68
• Author: Laura Smith (Author)
• Publication Year: 2015
• Pages: 13
• Catalog Number: V301483
• ISBN (eBook): 9783956874420
• ISBN (Book): 9783668010826
• Language: English
• Tags: good, mother, depiction, figures, agnès, desarthe’s, mangez-moi