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Maternité
Quand on entre dans l'univers de Chantal Chawaf, on en prend le risque. Ici, avec Maternité, elle défait les images reçues et acceptées : ce long rythme lyrique, à la fois blessé et conquérant, dénonce les illusions de la jouissance et du narcissisme où l'on enferme les femmes, dénonce ce qui a toujours été occulté dans la maternité, et même dans l'amour, tandis que, partout, le monde inquiète, gronde, s'auto-détruit. La seule chance de survie, ce serait de rassembler toutes nos forces, celles des hommes et des femmes, pour bâtir une société d'amour et de vie. Après Rougeâtre, voici Maternité : la parole sourd ici de la vie, et de la chair, et des gestes du quotidien, mais elle s'élève à une tension, à une intensité explosives, à un texte-secousse qui ébranle et fracture les surfaces du langage et libère le feu interne, la passion, les scintillements sombres, nerveux de nos démesures, de nos infinis où l'intime, le secret flambent, éclairent comme un soleil et transforment, renouvellent...
153 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1979
About the author
Chantal Chawaf
37 books6 followersChantal Chawaf (born 1943) is a French writer.
She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art at l'École du Louvre and literature. She travelled and lived for some years in Europe, in the Middle East and North America. In 1974, she started publishing at the Editions des Femmes, created in relation to the MLF (Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes) by the leading French feminist Antoinette Fouque. Chawaf’s first text, Retable. la rêverie, started what critics called "Écriture féminine". Books which also belong to this movement are; Cercoeur (1975) and Maternité (1979).
In her books, Chawaf explores the theme of a mother-daughter relationship and attempts to realize the potential of words to free the female unconscious, to de-intellectualize her body and give voice to an inner experience.
Chantal Chawaf work on birth and life giving leads in her last books to an ecocriticism of the contemporary society.
She has travelled frequently in the United States where her work is translated and studied in universities.
She is the author of many novels, one play and two essays, and is editor at a French publisher.
(from Wikipedia)
She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art at l'École du Louvre and literature. She travelled and lived for some years in Europe, in the Middle East and North America. In 1974, she started publishing at the Editions des Femmes, created in relation to the MLF (Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes) by the leading French feminist Antoinette Fouque. Chawaf’s first text, Retable. la rêverie, started what critics called "Écriture féminine". Books which also belong to this movement are; Cercoeur (1975) and Maternité (1979).
In her books, Chawaf explores the theme of a mother-daughter relationship and attempts to realize the potential of words to free the female unconscious, to de-intellectualize her body and give voice to an inner experience.
Chantal Chawaf work on birth and life giving leads in her last books to an ecocriticism of the contemporary society.
She has travelled frequently in the United States where her work is translated and studied in universities.
She is the author of many novels, one play and two essays, and is editor at a French publisher.
(from Wikipedia)
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