Education
In 1986, Marie Darrieussecq completed the Baccalauréat in French Literature from the Lycée Cassin in Bayonne. She entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where she studied to become a professor. The three years she spent preparing her entrance exam to the Ecole Normale are the only three where she did not do any writing. She continued her studies toward a PhD in French Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III) and at Jussieu (University of Paris VII). In 1997 she defended her doctoral thesis “Autofiction and tragic irony in the works of Georges Perec, Michel Leiris, Serge Doubrovsky, and Hervé Guibert” under the direction of Francis Marmande.
While speaking of any important lessons learned in her life Marie is quoted as saying “I am distrustful of lessons in school or in life. It is especially psychoanalysis, very different from a lesson, that has given me my own freedom.”
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