Carole Fives, écrivaine de la femme d’aujourd’hui
Abstract
Carole Fives’ work explores the relationship between contemporary literature and social reality, focusing particularly on women’s experiences in today’s society. Through short stories and novels depicting ordinary lives, Fives portrays intimate, everyday struggles shaped by social, economic, and familial pressures. Her writing combines apparent realism with subtle linguistic opacity, inviting active reader engagement. Without adopting an explicit militant stance, she exposes forms of social and gender-based violence through irony, fragmentation, and free indirect discourse. Fives’ fiction thus participates in a broader movement of socially engaged literature, offering a critical yet accessible representation of contemporary female condition and experience
Fields of Study & Subjects
French Literature and Critical Theory
French Literature and Criticism
Short Stories in Global Literature
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Revue des Sciences Humaines
- Volume
- 360
- Pages
- 219–228
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- FR