Adler, Aurélie <br/><br/>
A “romantic” woman: the mother, the romantic in Écrire la vie 

 -  2022.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> If the mother figure occupies a non negligible part in Annie Ernaux’s work, its representation is still being questioned. At first a character in the former novels, the female writer’s mother seems to lose its romantic characteristics in the narratives of facts: A Woman’s Story and I Remain in Darkness. However, the romantic is not dismissed: it is inscribed in the work’s structure and in the tension of the writing in quest of a “truth” of maternal images.