The Representation of Women in Louis Aragon's Le Monde réel
The common opinion, in the early part of the 20C, that the issue of women's equality was of secondary importance or a bourgeois diversion is evidently not one shared by Aragon, if we are to judge by his cycle of novels Le Monde reel, published between 1934 and 1951. Both class and sexual inequa...
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| Published in: | French studies bulletin 1995-12, Vol.57 (57), p.3-6 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The common opinion, in the early part of the 20C, that the issue of women's equality was of secondary importance or a bourgeois diversion is evidently not one shared by Aragon, if we are to judge by his cycle of novels Le Monde reel, published between 1934 and 1951. Both class and sexual inequality were closely associated in his mind when writing these novels; for him the social position of women provided a particularly acute illustration of the contradictions of class society. |
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| ISSN: | 0262-2750 1748-9180 |