The chosen ancestor
a reading of Dora Bruder, by Patrick Modiano
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2025.1.48037Keywords:
Patrick Modiano, contemporary French literature, autofiction, filiation narrativeAbstract
Reading of the work Dora Bruder, by Patrick Modiano, in the light of the concept of filiation narrative, as described by Dominique Viart. In a first moment, the article mobilizes and discusses interpretations of Modiano’s work based on autofiction to then focus on the filiation narrative with the aim of extending the analysis of the appropriation of autobiographical material in Modiano, especially regarding the obsessive investigation of the author’s ancestry. To this end, we seek to identify the characteristics of the filiation narrative in Dora Bruder and its implications in this work, highlighting the mirroring between Dora, the narrator and his father.
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