Darrieussecq's Pig Tales: Marianne's misfortunes at the turn of the millennium

Romanic Review, Nov 1999 by Lantelme, Michel

2. Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. Conversations with Professor Y [translated from the French by Stanford Luce], Hanover, University Press of New England, 1986, p. 5. Original edition: Conversations avec le professeur Y, Paris, Gallimard, 1955.

3. Cornille, Jean-Louis. La Haine des lettres. Actes Sud, 1996, p. 50. For an analysis of the representation of the publisher in fiction and a theorization of the relations between Author and publisher, I refer to Conte d'auteur (J.-L. Cornille, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1992).

4. Lejeune, Philippe. On Autobiography, [translated from French by Katherine Leary], University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989, p. 11. Original edition: Le Pacte autobiographique, Paris, Gallimard, 1975.

5. One remembers Aunt Leonie's reproach to Proust's young hero : "How you can go on amusing yourself with a book; it isn't Sunday, you know!" The Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 1 [translated from the French by Scott Moncrieff], New York, Random House, 1934, p. 77. Original edition: A la Recherche du temps perdu, Paris, Gallimard, 1913-1927.

6. Darrieussecq, Marie. My Phantom Husband. [translated from the French by Esther Allen] New York, New Press, 1999, p. 117. Original edition: Naissance des jantomes, Paris, P.O.L., 1998. Darrieussecq's third novel, Le Mal de mer (Paris: P.O.L., 1999) focuses once again on the mother-daughter relation.

7. On Marianne and the tradition of the political discourse, I refer to Marianne. Les Visages de la Republique, by M. Agulhon and P. Bonte, Paris, Gallimard, 1992.

8. Michel Winock, "Joan of Arc" in Realms of Memory. The Construction of the French Past, vol. 3, p. 469. English-language edition Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998. Original edition: Les Lieux de memoire, Paris, Gallimard, 1992.

9. Ibid., p. 475.

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