the only work of beauty to come out of Women's Lib.'The schoolgirls had vanished and these girl guerillas, 'pearl-tressed, two-breasted Amazons', beautiful, brilliant and deadly, despatched the race of men and any belief in crude, automatic male supremacy.
Five years later came Les Guerilleres, published with the admiring support of Mary McCarthy, who found this second novel 'a surprise, almost a shock. The poetry of its present-tense narrative and its evocative word-building immediately caught the attention of the critics and the novel with its schoolgirl heroines enjoyed a succes d' estime. Abstract: INTRODUCTIONIn 1964 Monique Wittig, who was then 28, won the Prix Medicis in France with her first novel, The Opoponax.
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