The Instituto Francés of Madrid will hold a literary meeting with the writer, activist and lesbian Monique Wittig (1935-2003) as the protagonist on Tuesday 7 April at 7 p.m., where her two works Las guerrilleras (published by Tránsito) and El opoponax (published by Bamba) will be presented. Free event with prior reservation at this link. In French and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
Writer and theorist Sara Torres and French editor, writer and activist Suzette Robichon will discover the figure and thought of the writer Wittig, who has contributed so much to queer theory and resonates so strongly in today’s feminisms.
French writer, lesbian theorist and feminist activist Monique Wittig significantly influenced feminist theory with her concept of the “heterosexual contract”. His literary work – essay, novel and theater – is characterized by a stylistic and semantic exploration that transcends genres. Despite being a key figure of feminism and lesbian literature today, for a long time it has been inaccessible: two of his great novels were not yet published in Spain.
This meeting aims to be a celebration of the arrival of the works that are presented to bookstores and an exchange about what the author puts at stake in these works: a total break – from conventions, from patriarchy – and the imagination of new possible worlds.
Monique Wittig was co-founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Her thinking revolves around what she called materialist lesbianism, in which she defines heterosexuality as a political regime. His main titles are El opoponax (1964), Las guerrilleras (1969), El cuerpo lesbiano (1973), Borrador para un diccionario de las amantes (1976) and El pensamiento heterosexual (1992).
