Café littéraire

2pm Centre Social Saint Exupéry.

John Winslow Irving, born on 1 March 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire, is a Canadian-American novelist and screenwriter. His fourth novel, The World According to Garp, published in 1978, brought him international recognition, making each of his new productions a bestseller. His works often deal with the Greco-Roman struggle, missing fathers, difficult childhoods, women's rights and gender minorities, bears, sex and moral questions...

Theme: Novels about women who have to or decide to become mothers on their own:
- John Irving: Le monde selon Garp ; Une veuve de papier - Jane Austen: Raison et sentiments - Anne Brontë: Jane Eyre - Albert Cohen: Le livre de ma mère - Chantal Delsol: Quatre - Carol Fives: Tenir jusqu'à l'aube - Nick Hornby: À propos d'un gamin - Alice Munro: Fugitives; Rien que la vie - Marie Ndiaye: Rosi Carpe - Goliarda Sapienza: L'art de la joie - Boris Vian: L'arrache-cœur, etc.