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Under the pseudonym Nadine de Longueval.<\/strong><\/p>\n
This novel is really very close thematically and psychologically to<\/span> The Yellow Wallpaper<\/i> in several aspects. The book’s protagonist, Judith, who writes the notebook found by her daughter in the opening chapters, is used by men to suit them, and loses all agency when she marries a man who has absolutely no interest in her except for his million-dollar fortune: no emotional contact, no hobbies, no bon mots, just a protagonist with in-laws who get on her nerves, her husband who talks only about himself and his novel that we guess will never be published, who interrupts her all the time, never lets her speak and discredits her at absolutely every opportunity, humiliating her at times and getting served by her all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout the book, we see her gradually sink into depression and madness, with all her hopes crumbling one by one. It’s hardly surprising then that society (and her daughter, before she met her) should regard her as crazy, given that she can’t express herself, can’t be happy, and is constantly attacked by everything around her, with only a small dog as a refuge. <\/span><\/p>\n In the novel, d’Eaubonne takes pains to explain what lies behind the “madness” of a woman seen through the eyes of others, who can finally tell her story without an outside eye or a husband trying to explain her behavior. It’s an extremely fine psychological exploration, taking us into the daily life of a woman deprived of everything, but above all of the recognition of her existence, forced to live for others and even as a bargaining chip. Even if it ends up as a bit of a hetero love story (the collection’s genre obliges) just before the last chapter, everything is credible, finely described and justified.<\/span><\/p>\n The last paragraph of the book is quite magnificent, in my opinion, since it marks the resumption of the story by her daughter, as both a way of inscribing the story into her own, as a legacy, but also as a memory, with the aim of rehabilitating, bringing out, making the story of a woman out of the gaze and, ultimately, with justice for all the wrongs committed against her.<\/span><\/p>\n Nicolas Lontel<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_icon font_icon=”i||divi||400″ icon_width=”38px” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybCIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7fX0=@” align=”right” icon_width_tablet=”35px” icon_width_phone=”32px” icon_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Ic\u00f4ne article” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|10px|||false|false” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” locked=”off”][\/et_pb_icon][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under the pseudonym Nadine de Longueval. This novel is really very close thematically and psychologically to The Yellow Wallpaper in several aspects. The book’s protagonist, Judith, who writes the notebook found by her daughter in the opening chapters, is used by men to suit them, and loses all agency when she marries a man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[350,466,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1962-1973-en","category-bibliographies-en","category-miscellaneous-novels"],"yoast_head":"\n