2024-01-05 08:00:06
CHRONICLE – Making a Woman by Marie Darrieussecq is her best novel since Truismes.
Despite its structuralist title, Making a woman is not a woke novel. Feminist without Manichaeism, it is the story of two apprenticeships: almost a classic novel, which begins in the 1980s, in the Basque Country. Two neighbors across the street, classmates, Solange and Rose, become friends before transforming into more or less liberated women. We are born a girl, a friend, a teenager, before becoming a lover, wife and mother. This was already the subject of Cleves (2011), one of his most successful novels, of which this is the sequel.
At that time, in the southwest of France, the goal of women’s lives was to prevent first loves from ending badly. For this, Solange is less gifted than Rose. Pregnant at 15: bad luck for marital happiness. Marie Darrieussecq rediscovers the acidity of her first novel, Truismes (1996), where a woman transformed into a slut. Here, the two friends are transformed, one into a middle-class girl, the other into a Hollywood starlet…
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