#nathalie hadrian

[emmodii]

04/09/2023, 3.38am

[antigonick]

French women write classics, too.

Astonishing I know, but I feel like my pals Hugo, Flaubert, and Baudelaire take all the credit around here; and if you’re in the mood for some feminine gallicisms, here’s a list of women writers and a few of my to-be-read, or favourite works:

FICTION & NON FICTION Marguerite Duras : Hiroshima Mon Amour; The Lover from Northern China; The Ravishing of Lol Stein Colette : Chéri; Ripening Seed; Gigi Marguerite Yourcenar : The Memoirs of Hadrian; Coup de Grace Simone de Beauvoir : She Came to Stay; The Second Sex Hélène Cixous : The Laugh of the Medusa; The Awakening of the Erynies; The Name of Oedipus Andrée Chedid : The Message George Sand : Pauline; Fanchon the Cricket Nathalie Sarraute : The Planetarium; The Golden Fruits Françoise Sagan : Bonjour Tristesse Madame de Lafayette : The Princess of Cleves Maryse Condé : Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Anaïs Nin : Delta of Venus; Henry and June; Journals of Love Elsa Triolet : The White Horse

POETRY Marguerite Yourcenar : Fires; The Crown and The Lyre Renée Vivien : Sappho; A Crown of Violets Anna de Noailles : The Living and The Dead; Eblouissements Marie de France : Breton Lais Louise Labé : Works Rosemonde Gérard : The French Muses; The Rainbow Catherine de Pizan : The Book of the City of Ladies