Donutini | Rene Bazan

In his novel "Donatien," René Zazan uses the female element to illustrate the major transformations that engulfed French society as a whole following social changes resulting from the expansion and dominance of capitalism and the widening gap between rural areas and cities. Consequently, the character of Donatien is presented as a model of those affected by these influences, experiencing many fluctuations as she detaches from her original world and migrates toward a completely different one. Thus, we are faced with a text that reinterprets the causes of these sudden transformations and what they produced for society, which, as its disintegration took an escalating course, still bears their effects to this day in French society and European society as a whole.