The Literary Workshop
The Chaotic Space Where Books Are Made
$21.06
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
The Literary Workshop takes readers inside Monique Wittig’s creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most complete account of how literature and politics work together. Part of the generation that revolutionized French literature, Wittig reveals the secret of her craft: that the work a writer does with language is itself a form of resistance.
Born and raised in France, Monique Wittig (1935–2003) was a drivin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804294451 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804294454 |
| Author: | Monique Wittig, Ann Jefferson, Sande Zeig |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
Wittig became a celebrity in the American women’s movement. Her collection of essays, The Straight Mind (1992), is witty, imaginative and, as ever, experimental. It is her imaginative use of style-as-politics that will be her lasting legacy, influencing writers as diverse as Kathy Acker and Jeanette Winterson. * Guardian *
A key figure in French feminism, perhaps the foremost theorist of a profoundly radical lesbianism * Publishers Weekly *
A dazzling writer. Her words are lucid and gleaming like moonlight – Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls
Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig was a feminist, activist, and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women, and introduced women into a Marxist framework by treating women as a class. Wittig is the author of The Straight Mind, Les Guérillères, and The Lesbian Body.
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