Gisèle Pelicot stayed silent after dozens of men were convicted of raping her. Now, Ms. Pelicot is finding peace by publicizing her ordeal and explaining how she survived it ... .
PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot gives a detailed account in her memoir "A Hymn to Life" of years in which her husband drugged her and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious. "My life had become nothing but an ... .
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A Hymn to Life... It is impossible to read Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life without hearing its echo ... And yet A Hymn to Life is not, finally, a book about collapse ... Throughout A Hymn to Life, Gisèle returns to the language of memory and dissociation.
A votive plaque depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Credit... Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια) ... A ritual that crossed social boundaries ... κυκεών) ... The Mysteries drew their meaning from the HomericHymn to Demeter, composed around the seventh century BCE ... ....
It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life... I have read enough books by female survivors of male sexual violence to say with confidence that Hymn to Life is unique.
I have read enough books by female survivors of male sexual violence to say with confidence that Hymn to Life is unique ... A Hymn to Life is alive with the kind of detail that wouldn’t ... A Hymn to Life.
With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed ... .