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Trading Secrets

by Paule Constant

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is constantly reimagined. nbsp; A darkly comic novel about four women aging less-than-gracefully, Trading Secrets takes us to an academic conference in Kansas where, in an encounter between Aurore, a French woman, and her American counterpart, Gloria, the differences between their two cultures become sharply apparent. The result is a bitingly funny portrait of painfully complex, psychologically damaged individuals, all of whom have been, in some sense, "colonized." The novel also offers an incisive picture of a French posture toward things American, from race relations to feminism to academia. As Paule Constant herself has said: "C'est un livre en miroir." The book is a mirror, both in how its characters reflect one another and in what it shows us of ourselves and our world.… (more)
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Tusquets Editores publica por primera vez una novela de Paule Constant, brillante escritora francesa a la que la crítica ha comparado con Colette, y lo hace con una obra inteligente e irónica que obtuvo el prestigioso Premio Goncourt 1998.

En un congreso sobre feminismo que se celebra en Middleway, Arkansas (el Oxford estadounidense), coinciden cuatro mujeres muy peculiares: Gloria Patter, de raza negra e influyente profesora en Middleway; Martha Témor, novelista francesa; Lola Dhol, bellísima actriz noruega, y Babette Cohen, profesora de literatura feminista originaria de Argelia. Las cuatro están a punto de entrar en la cincuentena. Por unas horas, antes de despedirse, se enzarzan en una conversación durante la cual dan rienda suelta a sus deseos y envidias, sus rivalidades y emociones. . . pero, sobre todo, sus carencias. Pese a que las cuatro encarnan una generación que ha luchado valientemente, pese a que han conseguido cierto reconocimiento profesional, todas sin excepción echan de menosalgo: la feminista Gloria, el don de la escritura; la sensible Martha,un hijo; la egocéntrica Lola, la juventud; y la independiente Babette, un marido. Nada en su vida es tan perfecto como creían, ni nada es más cruelmente cómico que empecinarse en que lo es. . .
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Miller, MargotIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wing, BetsyTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is constantly reimagined. nbsp; A darkly comic novel about four women aging less-than-gracefully, Trading Secrets takes us to an academic conference in Kansas where, in an encounter between Aurore, a French woman, and her American counterpart, Gloria, the differences between their two cultures become sharply apparent. The result is a bitingly funny portrait of painfully complex, psychologically damaged individuals, all of whom have been, in some sense, "colonized." The novel also offers an incisive picture of a French posture toward things American, from race relations to feminism to academia. As Paule Constant herself has said: "C'est un livre en miroir." The book is a mirror, both in how its characters reflect one another and in what it shows us of ourselves and our world.

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