Excerpt from cover of Le Sabotage amoureux


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The Department of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum Series presents

Désirée Pries

Amélie Nothomb: Exploring the “Feminine Condition”

Friday, December 6, 2002
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 004

Désirée Pries, PhD ABD in French Literature, will discuss the works of the contemporary Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. Her focus will be on Nothomb’s reconsideration of gender roles and the representation of women in her novels, involving specifically the Beauty Myth, anorexia, feminine adolescence, and gender utopias.

The presentation will be in English and followed by discussion.