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The increase in the visibility of autobiographies and fiction recounting suffering in this century has gone hand-in-hand with a notable emphasis on the possibilities and limits of empathy. Contemporary French women’s writing inscribes and interrogates the imperative to witness and respond to another subject’s pain and raises questions about the relation between empathy and reading. Engaging with a range of recent texts, including work by Marie Darrieussecq, Amélie Nothomb, Camille Laurens, Delphine de Vigan and Christine Angot, and representations of different kinds of suffering (including eating disorders, the death of a child, and sexual abuse), this book engages productively with notions of empathy in relation to gender and alterity as well as with the question of what is at stake in reading narratives of someone else’s pain.
Author(s): Robson K
Series Editor(s): Knight D
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Research Monographs in French Studies
Year: 2019
Number of Pages: 152
Print publication date: 23/04/2019
Acceptance date: 12/01/2019
Publisher: Legenda
Place Published: Cambridge
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781781886755
