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SUMMARY:Truisms\, Fiction and Women Writing: A lunch workshop with author 
 Marie Darrieussecq
LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall Rm 216\, 450 Jane Stanford Way\, Build
 ing 260\, Stanford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:The French and Italian Department and French Speaking Worlds: 
 Here and Now invite you to a lunch workshop entitled “Truisms\, Fiction a
 nd Women’s writing” with acclaimed author Marie Darrieussecq. Darrieussec
 q is a French novelist\, translator\, and former psychoanalyst. She earne
 d her doctorate in French literature in 1997 at the École Normale Supérie
 ure. Her 1996 debut novel\, Truismes (Pig Tales\, trans. 1997)\, tells th
 e story of a woman who slowly turns into a pig amidst a tense and deprave
 d political climate. It became one of the best-selling novels in France a
 nd was heralded by critics as a provocative social satire and multi-layer
 ed tale of feminist emancipation. She has since published over 20 works s
 panning from novels\, children’s books\, essays and biographies. Her nove
 l Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes won the Prix Medicis in 2013 and her 
 more recent works include Pas dormir (Sleepless\, trans. 2021) and Fabriq
 uer une femme (How to make a woman\, trans. 2026). Darrieussecq’s rich oe
 uvre probes the unspoken boundaries of language and represents a fearless
  expression of the female body. All are welcome!\n\nRSVP for the lunch wo
 rkshop here.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/64922f69-83b1-4d91-882f-c806e
 aaed34e
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/64922f69-83b1-4d91-882f-c806eaaed34e
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