Toril Moi

Apr 4, 2024 | morgenbladet.no | Toril Moi

DebattGulliksen og Frobenius’ estetiske ideal utelukker det meste av det vi i dag kaller litteraturJeg synes nok at jeg anstrenger meg mer for å forsøke å forstå deres synspunkter, forstå hvorfor de sier det de sier, enn de gjør for å forstå hvorfor jeg sier det jeg sier, skriver Toril Moi. Av Toril Moi, Professor i litteratur, fast spaltist

Sep 21, 2023 | thepointmag.com | Toril Moi

One evening in 1932, Simone de Beauvoir joined Jean-Paul Sartre and his old schoolfriend, the philosopher Raymond Aron, for a drink at a bar in Montparnasse.1 The three of them enthusiastically ordered apricot cocktails, the specialty of the house.

Apr 5, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Toril Moi |Marguerite Duras |Olivia Baes |Emma Ramadan

From the​ 1970s to the 1990s anyone who, like me, was interested in French women writers, feminist theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis couldn’t avoid Marguerite Duras. Lacan himself had said of Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein that ‘Marguerite Duras turns out to know what I teach without me,’ and I remember dutifully trying to make sense of that novel within the Lacanian framework. I now realise that I was treating the text as an intellectual puzzle rather than as an expression of lived experience.