Marie Ndiaye – La femme qui tremble, la femme qui impose

Abstract

Marie Ndiaye is one of the important faces of the contemporary literature having been appreciated by
the public and by the critics in the same time. Her last novel Trois femmes puissantes (Three strong women) has
received the Goncourt award in 2009 and sold over more than 46.000 copies. This triptic that narrates pieces of
3 women from Senegal caught our attention because, besides the fact that it brings a new view over the feminism
it gives us the opportunity to meditate over the concept of feminine writing. In this article we are aiming to
analyse the way in which the woman's image is built in the aforementioned novel. For this we will first analyse
the novel's structure then we will try to figure out if this is a ralist novel or a fiction