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Article: Le Petit col des loups. (Fiction).(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Maryline Desbiolles Le Petit col des loups Paris. Seuil. 2001. 127 pages 75 F. ISBN 2-02-040061-8
A DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE story, gravid with repressed feelings that cry for deliverance/delivery, Le Petit col des loups is like a paean to the transforming power of pregnancy, which distorts awareness as it transfigures the body. The unnamed protagonist, a young post-office employee barely past adolescence, who has lost her virginity to a village beau, exults in her secretly swelling body. No one knows of her state, neither her parents nor her boyfriend (a dim, distant figure off fighting in Africa). Her only confidante is her old nurse, Marie-Marthe, an eccentric loner ...