Marie Darrieussecq

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Marie Darrieussecq (2011)

Marie Darrieussecq (born January 3, 1969 in Bayonne ) is a French writer . Their first publication Truismes (German title: Schweinerei ) became a bestseller. A large number of other novels followed, and in the literary scene she was considered a charming petit monstre .

Life

Your father works as a technician. Her mother works as a professor of French literature. Therefore, she gained great interest in literature from an early age. She grew up in a small town near Bayonne and enjoyed access to a variety of literary works due to her mother's occupation. She learned to read and write at the age of six.

She studied literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and graduated in 1986 with the bac des lettres . From 1988 to 1990 in Bordeaux she devoted herself to interpreting the works of Roland Barthes . She then taught for a few years at the Université de Lille III on Stendhal and Proust . In 1997 she completed her doctorate at the University of Paris with the thesis “Autofiction et ironie tragique chez Georges Perec, Michel Leiris, Serge Doubrovsky, Hervé Guibert”, and in the same year she left the university to devote herself entirely to writing.

In 1997 she married a mathematician, but divorced him that same year. In 2000 she married again. She has two children with her husband, an astrophysicist. Their son was born in 2001, their daughter in 2004.

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Marie Darrieussecq started writing early. But she did not find the first five novels that she wrote as worthy of publication. These works are still unknown today. And it wasn't until 1996 that she wrote to various publishers asking them to publish her work Truismes .

She became known through her first published novel Schweinerei , which appeared in Germany in 1997. There she describes the inner monologue of a young unemployed woman who accepts a job in a massage parlor and slowly turns into a pig because of her work there as a prostitute.

writing style

Her work Truismes is compared with a number of well-known authors: "This prime example of literary ready-made goods in the ring dance with Circe, Homer, Ovid, Ionesco or Kafka, just because they feature beetles, rhinos, owls or pigs."

Several reviews describe Truismes as Kafkaesque .

She herself says of her work that it is "a metaphor for our world, which is nowadays a" pigsty "."

Marie Darrieussecq's works are often difficult to assign to a single genre or variety of the novel. In many of her works she is said to have an autobiographical background. For example, the book The Baby after the birth of her son was written in 2001. Even with her first novel Truismes, critics puzzled whether there was a political background or whether it was about female self-discovery.

Your writing style changes from work to work. What remains the same for almost all books, however, is the narrative perspective. Marie Darrieussecq very often writes in the form of the first-person narrator .

In Truismes , the protagonist describes at the beginning that she will tell her life story, i.e. that she will write down her memoirs. This little introduction takes up about two pages, then begins the description of the path from woman to sow. Truismes remains the only work by Darrieusscq that deals with the subject of "transformation" in the literal sense. There are no chapters and the original French edition from 1996 comprises 160 pages.

The baby is divided into two chapters on 192 pages. One part is called spring, summer , the other summer, autumn . Your writing style is interpreted as a relaxed diary. A mother tells from a first-person perspective how she changes, feeds and hugs her child. At the beginning of the work, the mother seems to be the happiest person on earth. She only deals with the child. Little is said about friends or even the father. Later, when the baby is older, the mother's euphoria seems to subside and it is described how stressful a child can be and that it can also be annoying.

Her novel White is attributed to the adventure novel and the romance novel. Marie Darrieussecq tells in her original edition on 224 pages about a man named Peter Tomson and a woman named Edmée Blanco, who stay at the cold South Pole and have to keep their love for each other a secret. The title of the book is the name of the project that your work is about. In this novel, Marie Darrieussecq writes in short, concise sentences and this time does not write in the first person, but describes the journey of the two protagonists to the South Pole and their path that lies ahead of them. In this novel she deals with the subject of isolation from the world and individualism.

In Le Pays Marie Darrieussecq reports on a couple on 304 pages. The woman is very pregnant and they want to move away from Paris. The couple moves to the country where the woman originally comes from. There the woman lets her family history pass in review. She thinks of her parents who no longer live together. Her mother has remarried, her father lives in a small caravan and her brother is dead. Life in the country allows the woman to find herself again. The review of La Croix sums up the content in a few words: "Avec Le pays , Marie Darrieussecq retrouve la terre de ses ancêtres." This work is written from two narrative perspectives. On the one hand, the inner voice of the woman repeats her thoughts and feelings again and again and on the other hand there is the omniscient narrator.

The book Péronnille la chevalière , which Marie Darrieussecq wrote together with Nelly Blumenthal, is a 32-page children's book. The story begins with the words: "Once upon a time there was a little girl ..." The protagonist is called Péronnille and she is very strong, very pretty and also very intelligent. As a knight, she fights against the bad guys.

Marie Darrieussecq has already been accused of plagiarism twice . The first time in 1998 by Marie NDiaye. Darrieussecq committed "psychological theft" in her work Naissances des fantômes . The second time in 2007 by Camille Laurens , when she is said to have copied content for Tom est mort . Laurens deals with the loss of her son in her work Philippe and accuses Darrieussecq of having written exactly this subject too close to her own work. Tom est mort and Philippe would have many parallels.

In her 2010 work Rapport de police, Accusations de plagiat et autres modes de surveillance de la fiction , the author explores the concept of plagiarism. She deals with similar cases - famous authors who have been accused of plagiarism. She also deals with the question of what role plagiarism plays in literature and literary history. She herself finds it normal when some sentences or parts of a book overlap with another book. It goes without saying that some authors have the same ideas and write them down.

Prizes and awards

In 1988 Marie Darrieussecq received the Prix ​​des jeunes écrivains (prix littéraire du journal Le Monde ).

In 1996 Marie Darrieussecq was nominated for the Prix ​​Goncourt for her work Truismes and was one of the finalists. In addition, her first publication was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Jean-Luc Godard secured the film rights for Truismes .

For Tom est mort Darrieussecq was nominated for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix ​​Femina .

In 2013 she received the Prix ​​Médicis for the novel Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes .

Published books and texts

literature

  • Colette Sarrey: French women writers of the 80s and 90s and the écriture féminine. In: Wolfgang Asholt (Ed.): Interpretations. French Literature, 20th Century: Novel. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86057-909-1 , p. 365ff.

Web links

Commons : Marie Darrieussecq  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grunt in sleep. In: Focus magazine. 1997.
  2. ^ A b Martha Holmes, Alain-Philippe Durand: Biography. ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Site Marie Darrieussecq. 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / darrieussecq.arizona.edu
  3. ^ Roman succès: "Truismes" de Marie Darrieussecq, Les "cochonneries" de la parfumeuse (+ recueil de nouvelles "Zoo"). on: buzz-litteraire.com July 19, 2006.
  4. ^ Hajo Steinert: The French bestseller "Schweinerei" by Marie Darrieussecq. In: The time. 1997.
  5. ↑ a b Werner Fuld: Grunts in sleep: The French Marie Darrieussecq conquered the literary business with a "mess". In: Focus. No. 7 (1997), February 8, 1997.
  6. ^ POL Verlag White by Marie Darrieussecq. In: Editions POL 2003.
  7. ↑ Le Pays by Marie Darrieussecq Editions POL, 2005.
  8. ↑ Studio guest of the week: Marie Darrieussecq.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ARTE.tv, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv  
personal data
SURNAME Darrieussecq, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayonne