Colette, Beauvoir, and Duras : age and women writers / Bethany Ladimer. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladimer, Bethany.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older women authors--France--Biography.

Older women authors.

Colette, 1873-1954.

Colette.

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Duras, Marguerite.

Women authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, French.

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Women authors, French--20th century--France--Biography.

Older authors--Biography.

Older authors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 235 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In a pioneering study of the three best-known French women writers of the twentieth century, Bethany Ladimer examines the ways in which the aging process shaped their creativity and their lives. Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, and Marguerite Duras all lived long lives and were prolific writers until the end. Ladimer's developmental approach to their creativity takes into account literary analysis and also discusses their work and lives from the standpoint of history and the social sciences, a conjunction that considers age, gender, and a culture that depends on the ideas of sexual difference for its national identity. She incorporates the work of Betty Friedan, Carolyn Heilbrun, and Margaret Gulette, among others, into her study."--Jacket.

Contents:

The French legacy to a woman of letters

Reconciling femininity and aging

Colette : inventing the way back

Simone de Beauvoir : on becoming a woman

Marguerite Duras : love and intimacy at eighty and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2280-0