Between "writing" and "betraying". The case of Annie  Ernaux Cover Image

Entre « écrire » et « trahir ». Le cas d’Annie Ernaux
Between "writing" and "betraying". The case of Annie Ernaux

Author(s): Fayçal Bouiche
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: contemporary French literature; self-narration; « récit de filiation »; Annie Ernaux; notions of discomfort and shame;

Summary/Abstract: We suggest to show through La Place (Gallimard, 1983) of Annie Ernaux that the feelings of shame and faintness constitute the contemporary « récit de filiation ». Our subject consists to examine how the emergence of these feelings try to worsen this contemporary assumption that today's writer write from an « illegitimacy » (this one can be of family, social or professional order, etc.). Besides, it is a question of coming up, with supporting illustrations, the way which feelings of faintness and shame come over the text while being interested in the advent of the ernausian discomfort related to the language, complicity and complexity with the father's figure.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 145-160
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French
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