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Le traumatisme de l'initiation sexuelle fèminine au XIXe siècle à l'exemple d'Une Vie de Guy de Maupassant

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Une Vie (One Life, 1883,) is the first novel by Guy de Maupassant, known as the author of newspaper chronicles and short stories. It tells the story of the banal life of an aristocratic girl who marries the first man met after leaving the convent and approved by her parents. Having been raised in a particular milieu that rejects any idea of female sexuality, she is marked forever by the trauma of her sexual initiation which makes her hate the camal relations. She stands them, however, due to her passive and obedient character. Therefore, she lives a monotone, meaningless life, despised by her family and going from one defeat to another. The novel might be read as a critiąue of arranged marriages.