The Papin Sisters

by Rachel Edwards, Keith Reader

Overview

France's "murder of the century" remains also the most violent non-war crime by women against women on record. The Papin sisters' killing and mutilation of their mistresses in 1933 has provoked reproduction and speculation ever since, by such prominent cultural figures as Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Chabrol. This book offers an overview of these reproductions and draws some provocative conclusions from them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198160113
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2001
Series:	Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Rachel Edwards is Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Keith Reader is Professor of French, University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Facts of the Case2. Mirrors, Fusions, and Splittings: The Papins, the fait divers, and the Psychoanalysts3. Literary Reproductions4. Cinematic ReproductionsConclusionAfterwordChronologyBibliographyIndex