A quote from the lead article says a lot:
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"Personally I am fed up with all the stereotypes," says Darrieussecq. "We're not intellectual. We're not obsessed with words. We write detective stories. We write suspense. We write romance.
"And it's about time you started noticing."
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The author lays the blame with Anglophone readers that French literature is not being noticed. This attitude of entitlement pervades French literature.