Leslie answers “Why oh Why do the authors keep writing...”

Dorie - Cats&Books :) asked this question about The Girl Before:

Why oh Why do the authors keep writing titles with the word "Girl" in it??? I won't even look at these books because it's just gotten to be so ridiculous. After all that work of writing the novel why settle for a stereotypical name, I just don't get it!

Leslie Part of the standard denigration of women, IMO. Ironically, I've heard that the author of the book that later was published as The Girl with the Drago…morePart of the standard denigration of women, IMO. Ironically, I've heard that the author of the book that later was published as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo insisted that the book be titled (as it was in Swedish) Men Who Hate Women. Unfortunately, he had passed away by the time the English rights were sold. It seems as if those books, again ironically, were the real start of the trend. There was an interesting discussion on the subject on one of the threads on The Girl on the Train. Someone said that they thought it fit in the context of that particular book because, despite being about 30, the main character was very emotionally immature. My response was that that interpretation would be fine if it happened in isolation, but as it is, it seems like they just do it as part of the trend. To be fair, I don't know that authors always have a lot of say in the title, in which case the fault would be that of publishers.(less)

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J It's not until the end of the book that you find out it actually is a "girl" before. Not referring to the women in the book, it's referring to the lit ...more
Mar 14, 2017 03:03PM · flag

Marie-Claude Dufour Interesting. In French the original title was preserved, for the book you speak of: L'homme qui n'aimait pas les femmes. ...more
Sep 09, 2017 01:46PM · flag

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