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Podcast: Manic Pixie Dream Girls go to Paris
Could you just **t, French literature?
This week on the
MashReads Podcast, we dive into the realm of the existential with*
In The Cafe of Lost Youth by*Patrick Modia**, written in 2007 and recently translated by Chris Clarke. The book is the portrait of a woman named Louki, and a cafe in
Paris in the 1950s, as seen by four narrators.*
Though a beautifully-written tribute to its location, the book unfortunately falls straight into the tropes of what we **w decry as the
Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a shallow, undefined female character that exists largely as a fantasy and/or device for growth for male protagonists.*
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