La haine dans la création littéraire : le cas de George Sand
Hatred in Creative Writing: the Case of George Sand

Summary/Abstract: Hatred pervades relationships among competing writers. Authors who seek literary fame may many a time face situations revealing the envy and hatred of their rivals or detractors, but hatred often becomes implacable when a woman author is involved. The most reputed case of misogyny among the 19th century writers is that of George Sand. The career of this woman author is marked by clashes and tensions, but despite the hatred and the envy of male writers, the animosity of her detractors and the constraining and degrading prejudices of her epoch, she did not surrender to despair or doubt, and never renounced her literary dreams. She fought against all odds and managed to prove that freedom and competence are not inaccessible to women, that genius can be female.

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