Carole Fives, écrivaine de la femme d’aujourd’hui

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Authors: Élisa Bricco
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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