by Margaret Atwood · Robert Laffont · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782221246023
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«La servante écarlate» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (537 pages, in French).
In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, born after a fertility collapse, fertile women are reduced to serving as sexual handmaids. Offred, one of them, stripped of her name and her past, lives subjugated to her Commander and his wife while remembering lost freedom; through a clandestine network she tries to regain her autonomy.
Originally published in English as The Handmaid's Tale in 1985, it is the first instalment of the series; this 2019 French edition includes an unpublished preface by the author.
For readers of dystopias and feminist fiction: the television adaptation The Handmaid's Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, attests to its relevance.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
