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-Oxford University Press, 2001-. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. First edition. 134 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since. It received wide journalistic coverage at the time, and subsequently prominent literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet have dealt with the case, which has also formed the basis of a stage play (by Wendy Kesselmann) and films by Nico Papatakis, Nancy Meckler and Claude Chabrol. The case casts fascinating light on French provincial life between the wars, the role of women (especially unmarried ones) in French society, and French views of the criminal outsider. Its impact on psychoanalytic discourse, through the work first of Jacques Lacan, then of Francis Dupré and Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, has also been considerable, notably in…
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The Papin Sisters (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture) Hardcover - 2001
by Edwards, Rachel; Reader, Keith
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- Title The Papin Sisters (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture)
- Author Edwards, Rachel; Reader, Keith
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Date 2001-10
- ISBN 9780198160106
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