Des filiations thérapeutiques dans Les Papillons Noirs de Caroline Gutmann
Therapeutic Filiations in Les Papillons Noirs by Caroline Gutmann

Summary/Abstract: In his Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle, published in 2017, Alexandre Gefen highlights writing practices that have some beneficial impact on the experience of disease. I situate in this perspective Les Papillons Noirs, which is a unique fusion of autopathography (Grisi) with a filiation narrative (Viart). Two dimensions of filiation are under analysis – the familial and the mythical and literary ones – which become for the “writing I” a therapeutic means of fighting with cancer, as well as intergenerational traumas liberated in the process of reading/writing from the family “crypt” (Törok).

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