After reading Fr. Begbeder’s and Anna Gavalda’s books within a month I’ve been thinking how much they differ. Both are French authors of the same generation, but entirely different in vision and tone! Just like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, who were of the same age, trying the stream of consciousness, yet, from totally different angles. Can the gender factor, so much talked-about, be to blame and determine that diversity?
hm...evokes thinking really! but brings difficulty to answer at the spot.
ОтветитьУдалитьI think there is something different about the way men and women write. a subtle difference, but I don't know what it is.. I can't explain it in words. perhaps it's just because I've seen the person's name and know it's a female or male author. So my thoughts there aren't valid really.
can you help me with a sort of experiment?
could you please look up 10 stories or novels by the authors of both sexes - 5 females and 5 males, and send them to me without naming them or telling titles?
then I'll try to decide if it is a male or female author, write down my thoughts about it, and why it made me think so. later on you'll tell me if I guessed it correct. the results will go here.
how do you like the idea?
Deal! This might be interesting.
ОтветитьУдалитьto be continued…
I'm sure it's the gender factor to be blamed for it! Women and men percieve the same things in different ways. Though they are both human beings, men and women have something in their brains that separates them. Charlotte Perkings Gilman once said: "Boys and girls are expected to behave differently to each other, and to people in general - a behavior to be briefly described in two words. To the boy we say "Do"; to the girl we say "Don't".
ОтветитьУдалитьAnd I believe that gender factor is reflected everywhere. Maybe it's for the better that we are so different or life would be too dull for us?
That's it! This is about perception... For precise gender-related comments contact Irina Palaeva. There's probably a theory...
ОтветитьУдалитьthe experiment failed actually...
ОтветитьУдалитьthe difference is felt, but it's impossible to define and to word it)))