From  pain  to  delirium  or  deconstruction:  revisiting  the parental image in Those arms by Camille Laurens Cover Image

De la douleur au délire/dé¬lire : une réactualisation de l’image parentale dans Dans ces bras-là de Camille Laurens
From pain to delirium or deconstruction: revisiting the parental image in Those arms by Camille Laurens

Author(s): Keltoum Soualah
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: witty observations; delirium; stylistic devices; deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: Here we seek to demonstrate how pain, leading to shouts and delirium, becomes through the author's imagination in an empire of signs that describes with accuracy the conflicting relationship of the narrator with her parents. It is the language submitted to the imagination that is the core of this article. In other words, examining the different techniques that Laurens applies, in other words: deconstruction, a witty observation and different stylistic devices, in order to provide the reader with a codified view of the setbacks of her experiences.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 379-402
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: French
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