Christiane Rochefort and the dialogic

"Pamela Fries Paine's book offers a fresh appreciation of the personal vision and individual artistry in Christiane Rochefort's novelistic fiction. Dividing Rochefort's work into three groups and focusing on voice as an essential structural element in the writer's work, Paine traces thematic and stylistic development as she analyses the complexity and subtlety in Rochefort's fictional rep-resentation of characters, language, attitudes, tensions, and intentions."--BOOK JACKET.