The Papin sisters / Rachel Edwards and Keith Reader.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford studies in modern European culturePublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (134 pages) : portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1423785789
- 9781423785781
- 1280444878
- 9781280444876
- 9786610444878
- 6610444870
- 0191541699
- 9780191541698
- Papin, Christine
- Papin, Léa
- Murder -- France -- Le Mans -- History -- 20th century
- Women murderers -- France -- Le Mans -- History -- 20th century
- Murder in literature
- Meurtre -- France -- Le Mans -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Meurtrières -- France -- Le Mans -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Meurtre dans la littérature
- TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General
- Murder in literature
- Murder
- Women murderers
- France -- Le Mans
- Mörderin
- Mord Motiv
- Literatur
- Film
- Misdadigers
- Vrouwen
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Social Sciences
- 1900-1999
- 364.15/23/094417 21
- HV6535.F7 L453 2001eb
- 15.70
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since. It received wide journalistic coverage at the time, and subsequently prominent literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet have dealt with the case, which has also formed the basis of a stage play (by Wendy Kesselmann) and films by Nico Papatakis, Nancy Meckler and Claude Chabrol. The case casts fascinating light on French provincial life between the wars, the role of women (especially unmarried ones) in French society, and French views of the criminal outsider. Its impact on psychoanalytic discourse, through the work first of Jacques Lacan, then of Francis Dupre and Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, has also been considerable, notably in its contribution to the development of the key notion of the mirror-phase. The almost obsessive recurrence of the case makes of it a fascinating prism through which to examine multiple aspects of recent French culture.
1. The Facts of the Case -- 2. Mirrors, Fusions, and Splittings: The Papins, the fait divers, and the Psychoanalysts -- 3. Literary Reproductions -- 4. Cinematic Reproductions.
English.
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