El mito como elemento transgresor en la novela postmoderna: Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq
ISSN: 1139-9368, 1989-8193
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 28
Pages: 243-257
Type: Article
More publications in: Thélème: Revista complutense de estudios franceses
Abstract
This paper is a study of a novel published in the final years of the twentieth century entitled Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq (1996). It makes use of some narrative techniques characteristic of the postmodern novel. Through the myth of the metamorphosis the author reveals and deconstructs a series of clichés from the collective imaginary, and applied to women in Western societies. With a humorous tone, the subject matter addresses real issues also under debate in the twenty-first century, such as identy and social integration.