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French writers' coronavirus getaways prompt backlash

Accounts of bucolic isolation by Leïla Slimani and Marie Darrieussecq prompt charges of elitism and comparisons to Marie Antoinette

By Alison Flood, the Guardian

Leïla Slimani in 2017.
 ‘A bit like Sleeping Beauty’ … Leïla Slimani in 2017. Photograph: Alamy

Leïla Slimani and Marie Darrieussecq may be two of France’s most acclaimed writers – but their accounts of life in lockdown in their second homes in the countryside have unleashed an outpouring of resentment among French readers, with one fellow writer even comparing Slimani to Marie Antoinette. More...