''The Words to Say It'' is an autobiographical novel by
Marie Cardinal
Marie Cardinal (born Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse Cardinal; 9 March 1929 – 9 May 2001) was a French novelist and occasional actress.
Life and career
Cardinal was born in French Algeria and was the sister of the film director Pierre Cardinal. ...
, first published in
French
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as ''Les Mots pour le dire'' in 1976. The novel deals with Cardinal's childhood in
Algeria
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, her sense of loss on leaving, her relationship with her mother, mental illness, and recovery through
psychoanalysis
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['The Words to Say It', in Barbara Fister, ''Third World Women's Literature: a dictionary and guide to materials in English'', Greenwood Press, 1995.]
References
Further reading
* Dammann, Hiltrud. ''Marie Cardinals "Les mots pour le dire": Autobiographisches weibliches Schreiben im Kontext der 68er Bewegung'', C. Winter, 1994
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* Hoft-March, Eilene
Cardinal's The Words to Say it: The Words to Reproduce Mother ''Studies in 20th Century Literature'' 21:2 (1997), pp. 4
* Martin, Elaine, 'Mother, Madness, and the Middle Class in ''The Bell Jar'' and ''Les Mots pour le dire, ''The French-American Review'' 5:1 (Spring 1981), pp. 24–47
* Powrie, Phil. 'Reading for Pleasure: Marie Cardinal's ''Les Mots pour le dire'' and the Text as (Re)play of Oedipal Configurations', in Margaret Atack and Phil Powrie, eds., ''Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives'', Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
* Robson, Kathryn. 'The Hysterical Body in ''La Souricière'' and ''Les Mots pour le dire, in Emma Webb, ed., ''Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives'', Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 93–106
* Wagner, Walter. Les Mots pour le dire'' ou la dialectique de l'aveu', , in Emma Webb, ed., ''Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives'', Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 171–186
Algerian novels
1976 novels
1976 in Algeria
Autobiographical novels
French-language novels
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