by Eliette Abécassis · Distribooks Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253120049
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«Un heureux événement» is the novel by Eliette Abécassis in paperback (160 pages, in French).
A young woman preparing a philosophy thesis discovers she is pregnant. From then on, the novel follows the transformation of her emotional, sexual and family life and her new relationship with work and with the meaning of her existence. With a direct and uncompromising gaze, the author questions the idealization of motherhood and presents it as a contradictory experience.
The work was originally published in 2005; this paperback edition is from 2007.
For readers of contemporary French literature interested in fiction about motherhood, female identity and social roles.
Éliette Abécassis is a French writer of Moroccan-Jewish descent. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Caen Normandy.
