Good Mother Bad Mother. The Depiction of Mother Figures in Agnès Desarthe's Un secret sans importance and Mangez-moi

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature grade: 68 University of Birmingham course: BA Modern Languages language: English abstract: Agnès Desarthe winner of the prestigious prix du Livre Inter and writer of adult and children's fiction alike examines a variety of themes in her works including one of the most perennial in writing by women: motherhood. Francesca Counihan discusses the fact that more and more French women authors have come to prominence [including] more discreet presences such as Agnès Desarthe. When her second novel Un secret sans importance was published in 1996 Desarthe was indeed une quasi-inconnue but with several more novels published in the intervening years a good number of which were translated into English Desarthe's works were more frequently disseminated and discussed by the time her seventh novel Mangez-moi was published in 2006.