ЖЕНСКО ПИСМО БЕЗ НАВОДНИЦИ
WOMEN’S WRITING WITHOUT QUOTATION MARKS

Summary/Abstract: This text deals with the novel „Eleven Women“ by Snezana Mladenovska Angjelkov who won the prestigious literary reward „The Novel of the Year“ in 2012, becoming the first debutant writer who ever got it. It also concerns the literary criticism on this novel that is mostly reading it in the line of an atypical women’s writing. That suggest that sometimes they legitimize the prejudice against “écriture feminine” and its presumed characteristics, even without recognizing it. Claims that women’s writing is full of superfluous rhetoric but is rarely insolent, bold, and outspoken must simply be dismissed as sexist prejudices, even if they are used to indicate the apparent quality of the novel itself. This paper stands firm on acknowledging the immanent literary values of this novel, and yet more on the plurality of the term women’s writing, used without the quotation marks.

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