UN CERCLE D’AMOUR : FILIATION MATERNELLE DANS AUGUSTINO ET LE CHŒUR DE LA DESTRUCTION DE MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS
A Circle of Love: Motherhood and Maternal Filiation in Augustino and the Choir of Destruction by Marie-Claire Blais

Summary/Abstract: Since love is a circle,isolate oneself inside a round shape becomes a metaphorical expression for the search for love and identity. Based on an excerpt from the novel Augustino et le chœur de la destruction [Augustino and the Choir of Destruction] by the Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais, this study aims at showing that a simple gesture can sometimes produce a whole system of symbols connecting a young girl not to a young love but to her maternal self, as part of a whole feminine filiation.As it will be argued below, the maternal filiation is an intermediary stage between paternal and classical maternal filiation (understood as a mother– son relationship). Narrative is thus a privileged (non-)place for generational feminine transmission.

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