La symbolique de la parenté dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar
(2002)
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- (en) Marguerite Yourcenar has often been described as a writer who does not care much about motherhood or even femininity. However, a closer look makes it obvious that she continously associates motherhood with the performance of writing. Within herself, the writer creates characters ; the woman altogether experiments symbolically with maternity ; the demiurge shapes a univers which she « alimente de [s]a substance » (nurtures with her own substance), as she states in Souvenirs pieux. This analysis follows seven characters related to parenthood : the old Dida from Denier du rêve, Hadrian, the emperor of the well-known Memoirs, Greete, a servant from L’Œuvre au Noir, Michel and Fernande (Le labyrinthe du monde), Nathanaël (Un homme obscur) and Lazare (Une belle matinée). Yourcenar establishes the supremacy of symbolic parenthood. In this reshaping, the Mother becomes the ultimate parent. It is no little surprise, then, to discover Marguerite Yourcenar as a mothergoddess of her own litterary universe. Nor biography, nor psychanalytic analysis, this study scrutinizes the very experience of literay creation in a major French author.
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Deprez, B. (2002). La symbolique de la parenté dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/208282