Although this could be an empowering narrative about women’s agency, and about the rich possibilities of living in community, clichés make the medieval world of the novel feel both more artificial and more distant from the present than it might. Among other things, the novel is a Bildungsroman for its protagonist, Marie, who has to learn how to be at peace with herself, and decides to learn how to manage and order her world after being commanded to join a nunnery. It also means a system of categorizing and understanding knowledge, a system within which things come into being. In Latin, it points us toward the leader and mother of a women’s religious community. The title of Lauren Groff’s ambitious new novel, Matrix, is deliberately multivalent.
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