by Isabelle Lortholary, Marie Darrieussecq · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782913366107
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«Naissances» is a collection of stories edited by Isabelle Lortholary, with texts by Marie Darrieussecq and other authors (L'Iconoclaste, 2005, paperback).
Eight women writers (Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Villovitch, Agnès Desarthe, Marie Desplechin, Camille Laurens, Geneviève Brisac, Catherine Cusset and Michèle Fitoussi) offer stories about birth as seen through female experience, with a witty, uninhibited and truthful tone that approaches the event from diverse perspectives.
The text is in French; the 178-page volume is subtitled «récits» and was published in Paris in 2005 with an afterword by René Frydman.
For readers of contemporary French literature and of stories about motherhood, childbirth and female experience.
Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
