La mise en question du réel

Danièle Sallenave

pp. 51-69

in: Imogen Long, Women intellectuals in post-68 France, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

This chapter investigates the pattern and profile of Danièle Sallenave's interventions in the public arena as well as representing an investigation of women-centred themes in a selection of her fictional writings. These writings or "cultural interventions' complement more conventional action in the public arena and so this chapter considers a variety of narrative modes which explore specific themes pertaining to women, sexuality and gender relationships and puts them in conversation with work by more well-known writers such as Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux. Beginning with a brief overview of Sallenave's main interventions in controversial debates and her links with Ernaux and Duras, this chapter then explores the ambiguities of the novel and its role in the intellectual's panoply of tools.