INTERVIEW – Has female loneliness become a joyous conquest of itself? In her new essay, Sabina Melchior-Bonnet analyzes the evolution of this ambivalent state and outlines a nuanced emancipation.
He has a strong story in his heart. his great-grandfather is the historian, philosopher and academic Hippolytus Thein (The Origins of Modern France 1875), his father founded the magazine history, and his mother was an expert on the French Revolution and the First Empire. But unlike them, Sabina Melchior-Bonnetti is fascinated by the story of sensitivity, a story popularized by Alain Corbin (History of Rest, History of Silence, Terra incognita. a story of ignorance), this cultural history that we read in the background of history with a capital H – a big axe, as Georges Perec said. after The story of the mirror (1994), Life before them. The story of a fifty-year-old woman (2000), and Reversals of love.
A story about separation (2019), Sabine Melchior-Bonnet published in 2021. Women’s laughter, history of power, showing that female laughter has always been seen as a threat to male authority and that
Source: Le Figaro
