by Christiane Rochefort · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246411611
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«La porte du fond» is the novel by Christiane Rochefort, published in 1988 by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (246 pages, in French).
An unnamed woman narrates her childhood and youth at different ages, between seven and thirty. Her father's incestuous maneuvers mark her story, and the novel turns them into a denunciation of patriarchal authority, oppression and family hypocrisy. The unease lies not in sex or incest, but in the power of the «Patrón».
The novel won the Prix Médicis in 1988.
Readers of literary fiction and French narrative interested in a critical look at family and power.
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.
