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My Escape: An Autobiography
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three children, underwent several illegal abortions, became a w ...more
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three children, underwent several illegal abortions, became a w ...more
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384 pages
Published
October 23rd 2012
by Other Press
(first published January 1st 1997)
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Evidently one should read Groult's Ainsi soit-elle and her Salt on Our Skin before tackling Rosie's Escape, to better make sense of her life and her raison d'etre. Nonetheless she seems to have managed to squeeeze several lifetimes into the space normally allocated to just one, and has provided a guiding beacon, not only to French women, but women generally.
Having said that, the gender which would most benefit from reading and hopefully understanding this autobiography is not the femmes. It's us ...more
Having said that, the gender which would most benefit from reading and hopefully understanding this autobiography is not the femmes. It's us ...more
Ce livre n'est pas tant une autobiographie traditionnelle qu'un recueil de pensées et évènements qui ont marqués la vie de Benoîte Groult. J'aurais aimé avoir une histoire de sa vie. J'ai reçu de l'information sur quelques étapes de sa vie et beaucoup de commentaires sur son interprétations de ces évènements. Deux chapitres sont même écrits sous la forme d'interview. J'ai beaucoup aimé son épilogue dans lequel elle exprime ses pensées sur vieillir et mourir.
Best quote from a spirited woman: "Virginia Woolf was right:'Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of the woman writer.'(...) But angels of domesticity are hard to kill, and in my case, I'd have to kill at once both the mother and the grandmother. Woolf underestimated the problem; she didn't have any children (...). I should have been warned a long time before this little bitch of an angel too possession of every fiber in my body, my reflexes, and especially the expectations
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This is a fascinating book by an amazing woman. Benoite Groult is a French feminist writer, journalist and campaigner. At the age pf 92 she is still going strong and her autobiography reveals her warmth,humour and determination. Groult writes beautifully, in a style that is liquid, poetic yet honest and down to earth. She relates her views on feminism to her life as both a professional writer and a family woman and I recognised much in her life that echoed my own.
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This is a book that is a hidden ...more
Une femme que j'admire pour son intégrité et son parcours. Une écrivaine que j'aime pour son écriture et son sens de l'humour. Je me suis reconnue dans une partie de son enfance et adolescence puisque le Québec des années 60 était probablement ce qu'était la France des années 30 pour les jeunes femmes, particulièrement à cause de l'influence du clergé ici. J'ai trouvé 2 des chapitres un peu long mais somme toute, j'ai beaucoup aimé.
I loved the autobiography of her youth the most (chs. 1-7).
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