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Marie Cardinal (born Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse Cardinal; 9 March 1929 – 9 May 2001) was a French novelist and occasional actress.
May 9, 2001 · Marie Cardinal. Cardinal was born in French Algeria and was the sister of the film director Pierre Cardinal. She received a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne and in 1953 married the French playwright, actor, and director Jean-Pierre Ronfard.
Marie Cardinal lives and breathes in a cosmos of fear. Its secretions exude from her pores and her womb. With images reminiscent of St. Teresa of Avila’s writings about her raptures of “terrible fear” and of being so “loathsome a worm” in the presence of an almighty deity, Cardinal is overrun in the face of the Thing living inside her:
In French literature: Feminist writers. La Bâtarde) and Marie Cardinal in Les Mots pour le dire (1975; The Words to Say It ). Creative writers in the realist mode addressed a widening popular readership with accounts of the lives of women trapped in slum housing and dead-end jobs. Notable works in this mode include….
Aug 29, 2013 · Marie Cardinal evocates fiercely her violent psychic battle with her unconscious in order to force it to reveal its secrets, her fear to (re)discover forgotten painful, but crucial, incidents or the psychic violence needed to open the doors of the subconscious.
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Marie Cardinal 1929-2001. Algerian novelist, essayist, translator, critic, and nonfiction writer. The following entry presents an overview of Cardinal's career through 2001....
The Words to Say It is an autobiographical novel by Marie Cardinal, first published in French as Les Mots pour le dire in 1976. The novel deals with Cardinal's childhood in Algeria, her sense of loss on leaving, her relationship with her mother, mental illness, and recovery through psychoanalysis. [1] References.
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