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The Companion (1923) by Victor Margueritte is the second novel in the trilogy that begins with his 1922 controversial best-seller, The Bacheloress, and concludes with The Couple (1924).
In contrast to the victimized Monique Lerbier, heroine of The Bacheloress, who appears in this novel in a supporting role, Annik Raimber is, a staunch proto-feminist with unwavering integrity, who never comprises her principles. When confronted with marriage and a family, professional success, and security, but at the price of, alternately, subordination and subjugation, Annik resists, maintaining her optimism that she is on the right path toward self-fulfillment. But does her brand of fulfillment exist in a world of entrenched ideology?
The Companion is an exploration of both feminist self-direction
and, more generally, the boundary between individuality and the pervading
social norms. As its author, Margueritte, writes: "A logical
consequence of my study of feminine mores, Le Compagnon claims,
in fact, and loudly, the right to say everything, in accordance with the
honest naturalist method."
Cover by Mike Hoffman
Published by Black Coat Press in January 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61227-361-7
