Excess and transgression in Simone de Beauvoir's fiction
Subtitle: the discourse of madness
By: by Alison Holland.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780754651529
Subjects: Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986 -- Fictional works
Description: This work fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer's frequently neglected novels and short stories, L'Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images and La Femme Rompue. In illuminating the rich complexity of Beauvoir's style, it challenges the often accepted view that Beauvoir's writing is flat, detached and controlled.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.