ABSTRACT

Simone de Beauvoir’s novella La Femme rompue tells the tale of Monique, who is abandoned by her husband after twenty-two years of marriage. In a didactic style, Beauvoir represents Monique as a caricature of a woman dependent on a man. Several decades later, Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux published texts that explore the motif of a woman being abandoned by a man: Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono and Ernaux’s Passion simple. In this article, I examine these two texts and the ways in which they offer a riposte to Beauvoir’s novella. Reading their work through theories of diary fiction, I argue that these two writers depict women who are able to move beyond a narrative of abandonment and, in so doing, they stretch the boundaries of this genre to offer new approaches to the representation of female subjectivity.

摘要

西蒙娜·德·波伏娃的中篇小说《嬉戏的女人》讲述了莫妮克的故事，她在结婚 22 年后被丈夫抛弃。在一种说教风格中，波伏娃将莫妮克描绘成一个依赖男人的女人的漫画。几十年后，Elena Ferrante和Annie Ernaux 发表了探讨女人被男人抛弃的主题的文本：. 在这篇文章中，我研究了这两个文本以及它们对波伏瓦的中篇小说进行反击的方式。通过日记小说理论阅读她们的作品，我认为这两位作家描绘的女性能够超越被遗弃的叙事，并且在这样做时，她们扩展了这一类型的界限，为女性主体性的表现提供了新的方法.