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The Baby
Published 2 April 2019
ISBN 9781911231264
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 192pp
AU Price $27.99
NZ Price $35.00
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The Baby

  • Translated by Penny Hueston
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Tr. Paperback
2 Apr 2019
EBook
2 Apr 2019
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A renowned French author asks fundamental questions about motherhood, gender roles and identity. A must read for fans of Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Jenny Offill and Maggie Nelson.

The Baby is a mother’s project and a writer’s project—how to reconcile these two demanding roles?

What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations that will bring smiles and grimaces of recognition, and raise important questions.

Along with the banal drudgery of childcare, there is the euphoria, the obsession, the terror and the visceral focus on the body. Arguing with ‘Saint de Beauvoir’, Darrieussecq examines how women as mothers are targeted from all angles. How, she asks, can a woman be more and other than a mother?
Published 2 April 2019
ISBN 9781911231264
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 192pp
AU Price $27.99
NZ Price $35.00
Categories:

About the authors

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
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Penny Hueston - Translator

Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc, Patrick Modiano, Sarah Cohen-Scali and Raphaël Jerusalmy. She has translated eight books by Marie Darrieussecq and has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
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Also by Marie Darrieussecq

How to Make a Woman
Sleepless
Crossed Lines
Our Life in the Forest
Being Here
Men
All the Way
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Rights for The Baby

Rights held: UK & Comm (excl Canada)