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Discussion Thread: What are all you reading in terms of fiction AND non-fiction? - #22 (lemmygrad.ml)

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Discussion questions:

What new books are you reading?

Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?

Question of the week:

What books are you eager to read that you haven’t read yet?

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[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Her work was also presaged or done better by communist authors who themselves were female as well but none of the communist books really struck it big.

Her's did though.

Still, whatever one may think, she did support the May '68 protest movement, which many famous French philosophers never did...

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The importance of her book is in the breakthrough it accomplished in deconstructing the millenia-old patriarchal/paternalistic logic which indiscriminately governed (Western) society. So it definitely merits its critical acclaim.

By the way, she supported the PRC since its establishment and visited China in the fifties. She wrote an investigative book about her visit entitled The Long March.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but she was more of a "Maoist" type (before Gonzalo).