More needs to be written about writing itself, which goes through the enormous cultural burden that women experience. But not feminist pamphlets printed for a living. 2022 Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux (Lillebonne, France, 1940) says it this way in Writing Like a Knife, an essay that deals with the basic keys of literature: “Look, they keep identifying writers by their gender and regrouping them.” There is an anecdote that explains why we are still segregated by gender in the male unconscious. She says: “I always knew I wouldn’t write like Duras [Marguerite] and I must admit that I was surprised to find rapport with him. Could you be unknowingly succumbing to that unconscious, generalized tendency that causes you to spontaneously compare a female writer with other female writers in the first place? We can say that Duras fictionalized his life and rejected all kinds of fiction.
