Alice Rivaz, Pioneering Feminist Novelist in French-Speaking Switzerland: Under the Silence of Women, the Fire

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From the 1940s to the early 1980s, the novelist ceased to question the inequalities between men and women. Her committed thought, praised today by Annie Ernaux, is highlighted in a collection of short texts at the Editions Zoé, "Feu couverte"All her life, Alice Rivaz (1901-1998) wrote on the relations between women and men, denouncing, with frankness, elegance and biting, inequalities between the sexes. Born Alice Golay in Clarens, the novelist …