Author | Philippe Sollers |
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Original title | Femmes |
Translator | Barbara Bray |
Language | French |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Publication date | 1983 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | December 1990 |
Media type | |
Pages | 559 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0231065467 |
Women (French: Femmes) is a 1983 novel by French novelist Philippe Sollers. First published in English translation in 1990, Women marked Sollers's move to a more accessible form of fiction writing after a series of difficult experimental texts.[1] The novel was a best-seller in France[2] and attracted attention as a roman à clef that contained recognizable portraits of significant French intellectual figures, such as Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, and Sollers himself.[3]