.."". the reader can expect an exciting and in-depth insight into the authors life, learning as they go."" -- WaterfrontThis English translation of Autrement dit presents conversations between writers Marie Cardinal and Annie LeClerc, interspersed with Cardinal's richly descriptive musings on her psychoanalysis. Their conversation is a vivid example of gender-marked writing; it takes up the issues of A(c)criture fA(c)minine, rifts within French feminism, rape, and marriage.

In Other Words

Literature & Fiction

Cardinal, Marie

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

Everything in Elsa's life seems calm and ordered. She is a successful psychologist, has an adorable daughter Laure, and is passionately devoted to the cause of reason and science. Then she discovers her daughter's heroin addiction, and abandons everything to try and save her child's life. This complex study of addiction, obsession, and maternal love is by one of France's most distinguished novelists.

Devotion and Disorder

Genre Fiction

Womens Pr Ltd

This work explores the author's personal experience of psychoanalysis. It reveals her truamatic childhood and institutionalization, followed by her escape to the quiet cul-de-sac where her psychoanalysist lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian analysis.

The Words to Say It

Womens Press

LesMots pour le Dire

French & European Pubns

THE WORDS TO SAY IT by Marie Cardinal, translated by Pat Goodheart, Van Vactor & Goodheart Publisher, is in the words of Bruno Bettelheim "the best account of a psychoanalysis as seen and experienced by the patient." It is the story of a healing set against the events in Algeria. Taught in over seven hundred and fifty colleges and universities as a text, and in over fifteen different departments, literature at Harvard University and in courses in medical ethics at Yale Medical School. It has received rave reviews in The London Sunday Times and the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic and the Washington Post, among others. According to Michael Wood "....THE WORDS TO SAY IT is a novel, not an advertisement for psychoanalysis, and the considerable virtues are literary rather than clinical. It is impecably written.... full of the most delicate notations, recalling with great tenderness the Algeria of the narrator's childhood: fragrances, faces, sunlight, streets, rooms, a whole mediteranean world of wind....Above all it is a book which finds the words it needs. Words can be guides too, escape routes marked on tattered old maps, and here the novel and the analysis come together since both are journeys towards a language that is sane and shared, and visibly free of the worst of the darkness."

Contemporary

Van Vactor & Goodheart

This book contains the French text of Marie Cardinal's Les Mots Pour le Dire with English notes and introduction.

Cardinal: Les Mots Pour le Dire (French Texts)

Bristol Classical Press

La jeune femme que nous découvrons dans Les Mots pour le dire est un être physiquement et moralement désemparé, au bord de la folie. Jusqu’au jour où elle se décide à confier son destin à un psychanalyste. Il s’agit ici d’un cas vécu, particulièrement pénible. Fasciné, le lecteur subit la puissance de ce livre où se manifestent le tempérament d’une femme et le talent d’un écrivain. Cet ouvrage a obtenu le prix Littré 1976.

Les Mots Pour Le Dire

Schoenhofs Foreign Books

Autrement Dit

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Le livre de Poche

La cle sur la porte. (Lernmaterialien)

Klett

Schattenmund. Roman einer Analyse.

Rowohlt Tb.

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