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Les journaux de confinement de Leïla Slimani et de Marie Darrieussecq – Histoire d’un malentendu
Obergöker, Timo
Obergöker, Timo
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Immediately after French President Macron declared the lockdown of the country, French writers Marie Darrieussecq and Leïla Slimani have published their lockdown journals, Slimani in Le Monde, Darrieussecq in Le Point. However the reception was indeed problematic, in that most critics insisted on their class privilege, romanisation of an unbearable experience for normal citizens, to mention a few. Our text explores the reasons for this problematic reception: we show that the lockdown has brought to the surface a whole set of traumata closely linked to the German Occupation. What is more, we explore the changing role of the author in French society. The author is not the nearly sacred institution Roland Barthes describes in his Ecrivain en vacances, he has become a celebrity like any other. The diary (journal intime) has strong female connotations, thus allowing for misogynistic stereotypes to flourish. Finally, we argue that Annie Ernaux's Journal du dehors is a more appropriate literary approach to the urgency of sanitary, economic and social crisis.
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Obergoker, T. O. (2020). Les journaux de confinement de Leïla Slimani et de Marie Darrieussecq –Histoire d’un malentendu. PhiN (Philologie im Netz), 24, 371‑382.
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Freie Universität Berlin
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Philologie im Netz
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1436-7211