by Christiane Rochefort · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253002949
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«Les Petits Enfants du Siècle» is the novel by Christiane Rochefort, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (128 pages, in French).
The novel follows Josyane, the eldest of a large family in a French working-class suburb, who takes on the care of her siblings while seeking a way out of poverty. Alongside her younger brother Nicolas and Guido, an Italian bricklayer, the story portrays with humour and harshness life in the large housing blocks and denounces social inequality.
The novel was originally published in 1961; this edition is from 1971. Number 2637 in the Le Livre de Poche collection.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction interested in social criticism.
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.
