Mourning, “Suspecting”, Repairing. Parentage Story  by Vera Feyder Cover Image

Deuil, « soupçon », réparation: récit de filiation de Vera Feyder
Mourning, “Suspecting”, Repairing. Parentage Story by Vera Feyder

Author(s): Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka
Subject(s): French Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: récit de filiation; Novel; Vera Feyder; Mother; Father;

Summary/Abstract: The work of Vera Feyder, a Wallo-Serbo-Polish-Jewish author as she considers herself, has been developing, since its beginnings in 1961, in the feeling of abandonment. The poor childhood of the author, due to the absence of the father, the poet Maurice Federman who disappeared in the concentration camps, and the mother, Elise who due to lack of resources, had to place her daughter in the sanatoriums or homes for disadvantaged children, exerts a certain influence on the author who during all her lifetime couldn’t recover from this lack, important for her and for her work. The Feyder’s récit de filiation appears at first as a barely disguised autobiography; it is then a projection of nostalgia and rancor, even of hate which is the part of the identity of the author; it is finally getting even with the past, including the historical past.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 9-24
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French
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