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Despair is born on Sunday. The novel that Slimani gave to the babysitters

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

Leïla Slimani openly opposes any form of "rape" of intimacy. Both her novels, Dans le Jardin de l'Ogre, and The Gone Song, for which she won the prestigious Goncourt Prize, show that even day-to-day contact with another person can not guarantee that we know each other.