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- Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
What should we remember about The Woman in the Mirror, the novel that has enthralled readers? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
In particular, you will find in this sheet:
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Anne, Hanna and Anny
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: "A specific narrative scheme", "A portrait of women with three facets", "The theme of the mirror" and "Three places, three times and the same straitjacket"
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ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT
FRENCH-BELGIAN WRITER
•Born in 1960 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
•Some of his works:
°The Selfish Sect (1994), novel
°The Other's Share (2001), novel
°Oscar and the Pink Lady (2002), novel
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He lives in Brussels and began his writing career in the theatre with La Nuit de Valognes (1991), a variation on the myth of Don Juan, and Le Visiteur (1993), a play in which Freud (Austrian doctor, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) is visited by an enigmatic man who claims to be God himself.
While continuing to write for the theatre, Schmitt also writes novels (La Part de l'autre), short stories (Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires, 2006) and even an autofiction (Ma vie avec Mozart, 2005). Recently, he got behind the camera and adapted two of his works for the cinema, including Oscar et la Dame rose (2009).
THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
THE STORY OF THREE EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN
•Genre: novel
•Reference edition:La Femme au miroir, Paris, Albin Michel, 2011, 455 p.
•1st edition: 2011
•Themes : difference, femininity, mirror, destiny, marriage
The Woman in the Mirror features three women in different times and places: Anne lives in Bruges (Belgium) during the Renaissance, Hanna in Vienna (Austria) at the beginning of the 20th century, and Anny in California (USA) today. All three women live in the historical and cultural context of their time, but the same weight seems to weigh on them: that of convention, which they try, each in their own way, to escape.
SUMMARY
ANNE
During the Renaissance, Anne is a rebellious young orphan who lives with the rest of her family – all women – in Bruges. Anne has to marry Philip, but she doesn't want to. So she feels different from her friends, who are attracted to marriage.
On the occasion of her wedding, she was lent a mirror, a rare object at the time, but her jealous cousin Ida broke it, and Anne took advantage of the distraction caused by the incident to flee her wedding and take refuge in the forest, where she spent several days alone, far from everything and completely happy. She has always had a special bond with nature, and it was in contact with it that she experienced her first ecstasies. By running away from her marriage, she feels an intense relief.
Ida and Philippe finally find her and, in anger, tie her up. Then a gigantic stranger, the monk Braindor, appears and puts them on the run. He looks threatening, but is actually very kind: he had supplied Anne with bread during her stay in the forest. After cutting the young woman's ties, he takes her to Bruges and announces to her astonished family that Anne's vocation is probably to become a nun. Indeed, he quickly sensed the young woman's mystical potential.
Later, it is decided that Anne will not marry Philip – to prevent any further flight – but her family refuses to allow her to be religious. At Braindor's instigation, she reads the Bible, which fascinates her, but the violence frightens her to the point of giving her nightmares. She concludes that she is not cut out for the religious life. Feeling called by the wolf that threatens the town, Anne takes part in a hunt and establishes a strange bond with the animal by teaching it to detect traps and providing it with food.
When she returns to Bruges, everyone believes it is a miracle that the wolf has spared her. It no longer attacks the inhabitants. Anne is venerated as a saint and becomes the attraction of the town: “If God had saved this creature, it was because she was pure, a virgin, without sin. (p. 184)
