After the Divorce

Bovet, Marie-Anne deProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
362K words
Chapters
37

Tags

Foreign Language Books Romance Fiction Social ObservationFamily BondsLove EntanglementsUrban RomanceHuman NaturePsychological InsightMoral DilemmaHeartwarming NarrativeFemale Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Après le divorce by Marie-Anne de BovetAuthor: Bovet, Marie-Anne de,Language: French, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Feb 10, 2013

Editor's review

Après le divorce is a novel by the French writer Marie-Anne de Bovet, part of Project Gutenberg's public-domain e-book collection under French literature. The title indicates the work centers on life after divorce, making it a useful sample of how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French popular fiction handled marriage, family, and women's circumstances. Its value lies less in plot summary than in the immediacy of language and social attitudes: dialogue, family relations, and social judgment together sketch a portrait of period manners. Because the original is in French and dates from an early period, readers need some French reading ability and a basic familiarity with the marriage laws and social norms of the time to grasp the tensions in the narrative. Suited to literary researchers, French learners, and readers interested in literary treatments of marriage.

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Reading tips

  1. Understand the post-divorce situation named in the title, then read the opening chapters with an eye on character relationships to map the family structure.
  2. Note how characters speak about divorce in social evaluation as an entry point into period attitudes.
  3. French learners can read dialogue-heavy chapters closely and skim others to follow the plot.
  4. For research on marriage, compare with other French novels of the same period to see differences in treatment.

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Contents

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FAQ

Is there a Chinese translation? Available information only identifies it as a French public-domain e-book from Project Gutenberg and gives no Chinese translation. Check whether a reliable translation exists; if not, you need French reading ability or dictionaries and aids to read the original.
What themes does the novel mainly discuss? Judging by the title and its literary category, it centers on life and family relations after divorce, set against marriage as an institution and social judgment. For specifics, rely on the original rather than inferring too much from the title.
Is it suitable for French beginners? Not for absolute beginners. Early French novels may use older sentence patterns and vocabulary; intermediate French reading ability is advisable, or choose an annotated or introduced edition and read chapter by chapter with a dictionary.

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About the author

Bovet, Marie-Anne de Author

Marie-Anne de Bovet is an author about whom very little is publicly known; the available information confirms only her name and a single work. Her representative title, Après le divorce ("After Divorce"), indicates from its very name that the work takes up divorce as a social issue, focusing on the personal circumstances and emotional changes that follow the breakup of a marriage. Because both the available records and public sources are so sparse, her nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and the full range of her writing cannot be established, nor can it be determined whether the work is a novel, an essay, or another genre. On the present evidence, Bovet's writing appears to approach family and marital relations as its point of entry, with a tendency toward social observation and emotional description. Such themes were not uncommon in European literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where individual fates often reflected contemporary debates about marriage as an institution. For Chinese readers this author remains unfamiliar, and the value of her work awaits fuller documentation and study.