Incriminations

Maintaining that women's storytelling is a telling activity, Karen McPherson "reads for guilt" in novels by five twentieth-century writers--Simone de Beauvoir ( L'Invitée ), Marguerite Duras ( Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein ), Anne Hébert ( Kamouraska ), Virginia Woolf ( Mrs. Dalloway ), and Nicole Brossard ( Le désert mauve ). She finds in the vocabulary and atmosphere of these novels a linking of female protagonists to crime and culpability. The guilt, however, is not clearly imputed or assume