Pensées d'une amazone

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Pensées d'une amazone

by Natalie Clifford Barney

FR·~4 hours

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From the first pages, the narrator offers a cascade of intimate reflections, addressed to friends, lovers, and strangers alike. The prose oscillates between sharp wit and tender confession, turning everyday dedications into a meditation on gender, war, and the restless search for identity. Each fragment feels like a whispered challenge, inviting the listener to consider how thought itself becomes an act of resistance.

The work weaves historic quotations with modern observations, using the figure of the Amazon as a symbol of fierce independence. Through lyrical fragments and rhetorical questions, it examines the tensions between societal expectations of women and the desire for intellectual freedom. Listeners will be drawn into a mosaic of ideas that feels both personal and universal, encouraging a quiet but powerful dialogue about love, power, and the price of honesty.

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Language

fr

Duration

~4 hours (244K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Marc D'Hooghe

Release date

2015-09-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

1877–1972

A fearless American expatriate in Paris, she turned her home into one of the city’s great literary salons and wrote with unusual openness about love, independence, and women’s lives. Her work and example made her a memorable figure in early feminist and lesbian literary history.

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