Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir Nathalie Sarraute Marguerite Duras Monique Wittig and Maryse Condé

Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir Nathalie Sarraute Marguerite Duras Monique Wittig and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part biography this book seeks mainly to shed light on how these writers works illustrate the fine line that separates fact from fiction.