Monique Wittig – författare

The Literary Workshop takes readers inside Monique Wittig's creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most com­plete account of how literature and politics work together. Part of the generation that revolutionized French literature, Wittig reveals the secret of her craft: that the work a writer does with language is itself a form of resistance.Born and raised in France, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) was a driving force in second-wave feminism and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women and in­troduced women into a materialist framework by treating them as a class. Wittig is the author of, among other titles, The Straight Mind, Les Guérillères, and The Lesbian Body. Her debut novel, The Opoponax, won Le Prix Medicis.

The Literary Workshop takes readers inside Monique Wittig's creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most com,plete account of how literature and politics work together. Part of the generation that revolutionized French literature, Wittig reveals the secret of her craft: that the work a writer does with language is itself a form of resistance.Born and raised in France, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) was a driving force in second-wave feminism and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women and in,troduced women into a materialist framework by treating them as a class. Wittig is the author of, among other titles, The Straight Mind, Les Gu,rill,res, and The Lesbian Body. Her debut novel, The Opoponax, won Le Prix Medicis.

Mit subversivem Witz und großer Sprachlust erzählt Monique Wittig in ihrem 1964 erschienenen Debütroman Opoponax vom Aufwachsen eines Mädchens.Themen wie Kindheit, Freundschaft, Identität und Sexualität verbindet die Autorin mit der Überwindung tradierter Geschlechterrollen und begeisterte damit prominente Kolleginnen wie Nathalie Sarraute und später Judith Butler, die Wittig in »Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter« ein eigenes Kapitel widmete.Der mit dem Prix Médicis ausgezeichnete Roman hat bis heute nichts von seiner Relevanz eingebüßt und ist nun endlich wieder auf Deutsch erhältlich. Ein Buch, das lustvoll Konventionen hinterfragt und nun in der stilprägenden Übersetzung von Elmar Tophoven neu zu entdecken ist.