Marilyn French

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Marilyn French (born November 21, 1929 in New York City , † May 2, 2009 ibid) was an American writer , literary scholar and feminist .

Life

Since 1964 she has been teaching English literature. In 1972, she was with a thesis on James Joyce doctorate . In her striving for the emancipation of women , she was primarily influenced by Simone de Beauvoir .

French's credo was:

"My goal in life is to change the Entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world." (Dt .: "My life goal is the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization to change in order to a feminist world. ")

In addition, she added:

"It's a kind of moral view." (Eng .: "It's something like a moral view.")

Her best-known work Frauen ( The Women's Room ), in which she coined the controversial and much-quoted sentence “All men are rapists and nothing else”, appeared for the first time in 1977 and became a “kind of feminist cult book ”. The novel describes the fate of Mira, who was only prepared for her traditional role as a woman, after her divorce as a "free but lonely victim of the male world".

1980 published her novel The Bleeding Heart (dt. The bleeding heart ), in which the relationship of the protagonist Professor Dolores designed to her lover, the unhappily married Victor, between love and despair in similarly difficult way.

Her two later novels, Her Mother's Daughter (1987, German daughter of her mother ) and Our Father (1994, German father ours ) also focus on the oppression of women. Anastasia, the protagonist in Her Mother's Daughter, tells the story of four generations of an immigrant family in which the intellectual and spiritual inheritance is passed on to the daughters. Anastasia wishes to live as free as a man and to emancipate herself in a world in which the oppression of women is a kind of hereditary burden. Our Father describes in an even more depressing form the life of four half-orphans of the same father who, after their father's stroke, discover at a meeting that they were all abused as young girls by their father .

Marilyn French worked with other authors on various occasions, such as B. with Florence Howe and Rosalind Miles . She was a member of PEN America .

Marilyn French had a son and daughter and lived in New York.

The Swedish pop group ABBA mentioned Marilyn French in their 1982 song The Day Before You Came in the text line: "I must have read a while, the latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style."

Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  3. ↑ Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  4. ↑ Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  5. ↑ See Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  6. ↑ See also Martin Schulze: History of American Literature . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-05776-8 , p. 597.
  7. ↑ PEN American Center Annual Report , Vol. 2008-2009 , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME French, Marilyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2009
Place of death New York City