Lilia Hassaine rewrites Jane Eyre from the margins, in a novel called "JE"
The French novelist offers a feminist retelling of Charlotte Brontë's classic, told through Antoinette, a secondary character trapped under another's control.
Lilia Hassaine has published a novel titled "JE", which takes Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" as its starting point but shifts the narrative to Antoinette, a minor figure in the original novel, according to Le Monde.
Rather than following Jane, Hassaine's book gives voice to a woman described by Le Monde as living under emprise — under another's control — reworking the classic's margins from a feminist perspective.
Le Monde's report does not detail plot, publisher, or length beyond this reframing, so the specifics of how far the novel departs from Brontë's text remain to be discovered by readers themselves.
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