Du récit de l’autre au récit de soi. La double confidence de Françoise Mallet¬Joris
From the narrative about other to the narrative about yourself. La double confidence by Françoise MalletJoris

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the book La Double Confiance (2000) by the Belgian novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, which is the fusion of the biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and the autobiography of the author. The writing of the biography triggers the author's memory and awakens her memories (mainly her difficult relationship with her mother, Suzanne Lilar): she allows her to observe herself, to analyze herself, to ask questions she avoids, to re-emerge repressed. I study the elements that link the work of Mallet-Joris to "narrations of filiation", I examine the binary structure, the singularity of discursive strategies, as well as the therapeutic function of this self-biographic project.

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