Mona Ozouf, literature and feminism
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By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
Mona Ozouf is a philosopher and historian. Author with François Furet of the "Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution", she has published around thirty books. At the dawn of her ninety spring, Mona Ozouf comments on a collection of her texts published under the title "To make life lighter, books, women, manners" (Stock).
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Cover of the collection of texts by Mona Ozouf © Stock
"Why literature ? Because literature provides us with gifts that we do not have. It immediately provides us with ubiquity. Thanks to literature, we live in countries, cities where we have never set foot. Thanks to literature, we can go back to bygone eras. There is a kind of immense freedom which the practice of books gives, and which we do not have. The multiplication of existence in literature is a precious opportunity. "
This volume contains the main broadcasts made by Mona Ozouf to "Replica", under the direction of Alain Finkielkraut: on women and the singularity of their writing; on books like "homeland"; on French gallantry; on civility; on the Pantheon; on the French Revolution; on Henry James; on George Eliot. The partners with whom she dialogues here are Diane de Margerie, Claude Habib, Pierre Manent, Geneviève Brisac, Philippe Belaval, Philippe Raynaud, Patrice Gueniffey.
It is a whole intellectual journey that is drawn here, from its founding works on the French Revolution until what it calls its "beautiful escapades" in literature. (Presentation of Stock editions )
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