L’enfant orphelin à la recherche de l’identité (Romain Gary, Jean-Paul Sartre)
Orphaned child in search of identity (R. Gary, J.-P. Sartre)

Author(s): Krystyna Modrzejewska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Gary; Sartre; orphaned child; identity; memories
Summary/Abstract: Childhood memories of R. Gary (Promise of the Morning) and J.-P. Sartre (Words) reflect a traumatic search for the identity of orphan boys. The modest image of the father contrasts in them with the mother’s vision of their future, containing everything that was missing in the lives of mothers. Writing as modus vivendi turned out to be an escape into the world of imagination, which, by protecting them from the real world, allowed them to understand this world.

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