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A Translation Of Marion Guillot’S C’Est Moi With Afterword, Edwin Schooler Iii
A Translation Of Marion Guillot’S C’Est Moi With Afterword, Edwin Schooler Iii
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis is a literary translation of French author Marion Guillot’s 2018 novel C’est moi. The work tells the story of a journey of self-discovery gone wrong. The unnamed narrator feels as if she and Tristan, her unemployed boyfriend, are slowly drifting apart as they put up with the daily domestic drudgery of their Parisian lives. They don’t really get out anymore and they never see anyone except Tristan’s only friend, Charlin, someone who the narrator doesn’t particularly care for. One day, Tristan plans a surprise which he seems to think might save their relationship: hanging a gigantic nude …