Initially considered a limited if talented novelist (despite the outspoken admiration in her lifetime of figures such as André Gide and Henry de Montherlant), she has been increasingly recognised as an important voice in women's writing.
起初，她被认为是一个才华有限的小说家（尽管她一生中对安德烈·紀德和亨利·德·蒙泰朗等人物的直言不讳的钦佩），现在却越来越被公认为女性写作的重要声音。