Abstract
This article1 provides an analysis of the critical reception of Françoise Sagan's first six novels (published between 1954 and 1965) before offering a rereading of these novels from a feminist perspective. The first part of the article is therefore devoted to highlighting the various devices used to discredit Sagan's literature. It aims to suggest that her personal and professional reputation was constructed around a set of sexist and elitist stereotypes concerning a woman writer and female characters typical of the time. The second part of the article argues that these six novels represent an interesting field of investigation for the study of women's quest for an autonomous identity, particularly as they were published after Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) and before feminism started to have a significant influence on literary criticism.
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