THE FATHER, AS CHARACTER OF HIS SON IN THREE AUTOFICTIONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S SECOND HALF (ALBERT CAMUS, PAUL AUSTER, CHRISTOPH MECKEL) Cover Image

LE PÈRE, PERSONNAGE DU FILS DANS TROIS AUTOFICTIONS DE LA SECONDE MOITIÉ DU XXe SIÈCLE ALBERT CAMUS, PAUL AUSTER, CHRISTOPH MECKEL
THE FATHER, AS CHARACTER OF HIS SON IN THREE AUTOFICTIONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S SECOND HALF (ALBERT CAMUS, PAUL AUSTER, CHRISTOPH MECKEL)

Author(s): Véronique Léonard-Roques
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: father-son relationship; family secrets; postmodernism; autofiction; myth.

Summary/Abstract: The Father, as Character of his Son in Three Autofictions of the 20th Century’s Second Half (Albert Camus, Paul Auster, Christoph Meckel). This study focuses on the way how the narrators search for their missing fathers. Victims of the History, those fathers have failed. Using myths and fictions, their sons try to give a sense to their destiny.

  • Issue Year: 53/2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 165-177
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French