Apology for the Woman Writing

Resumen del libro

Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughter for the two months they knew each other. He died four years later, after which, though scorned by intellectuals, she became his editor. Jenny Diski engages with this passionate and confused relationship between 'father and daughter', old writer/young acolyte, possible lovers, using both their voices. Much of their story is about absence of the people they love. In Jenny Diski's hands it becomes a fascinating tale.

Biografía del autor

Jenny Diski (Londres, 1947 " Cambridge, 2016) fue una reputada escritora conocida principalmente por sus libros de viajes. Diski fue un baluarte de la literatura feminista en la Inglaterra del último tercio del siglo xx, una orientación que, en los últimos años, dirigió hacia su yo más íntimo.