Abstract
Responding to erotica’s growing popularity, the French magazine Marie Claire complemented its August 2012 issue with a trio of erotic novellas. In this article, I argue that unlike the recent mainstream engagement with this genre, the three novellas by Christine Angot, Claire Castillon, and Tatiana de Rosnay purposefully transgress the parameters of heteronormative romantic erotica in order to remap configurations of female sexuality, via subversions of the aesthetics of desire, the queering of gender identity, and destabilizing the male gaze respectively. Furthermore, I examine Marie Claire’s decision to commission these novellas as a strategy that pushes specific boundaries of expectation for its readership.
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