by Christiane Rochefort · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432246326
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«La puerta del fondo» is the novel by Christiane Rochefort, published by Seix Barral in paperback (190 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist reconstructs a childhood marked by the sexual abuse her father begins to inflict on her when she is eight years old. That narrative material becomes a critical reflection on power within the family and society, told in a deliberately abrupt style, between memory and invention.
The French original, «La porte du fond», was published in 1988 and its Spanish translation is by Ana Iuandó. The work won the Prix Médicis in 1988.
A work for readers of contemporary fiction, with a controversial literary proposal and strong social criticism.
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.
