Self-portrait with animals in the works of Olivia Rosenthal et Nastassja Martin

Author(s)

  • David Vrydaghs NaLTT, University of Namur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief13465

Keywords:

Nastassja Martin, Olivia Rosenthal, self-portrait, autobiography, sociopoetics, zoopoetics, anthropology

Abstract

Adopting a sociopoetical perspective, this article proposes to question the contemporary variations of the self-portrait and their effects in the literary field on the basis of a comparative study between Que font les rennes après Noël ? (2010) by Olivia Rosenthal and Croire aux fauves (2019) by Nastassja Martin. In addition to being published by the same publisher (Verticales), these two texts combine differently the characteristics of two genres often described as antagonistic, the autobiography and the self-portrait. They stand out even more by their questioning of animal otherness, resulting in forms of hybridization with multiple challenges.

Author Biography

  • David Vrydaghs, NaLTT, University of Namur

    David Vrydaghs is professor of 20th and 21st century French literature at the University of Namur. Founding member of the journal COnTEXTES and the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality (NaLTT), he is particularly interested in the postures and representations of the contemporary writer. He has published on Michaux, the surrealists, Mauvignier, Chevillard, Volodine and Divry, and recently co-edited, with Denis Saint-Amand, Railler aux éclats. La veine satirique de la littérature française contemporaine (2021).

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Published

2022-12-19

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Olivia Rosenthal: literature on the look-out

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2022 David Vrydaghs

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How to Cite

“Self-portrait with animals in the works of Olivia Rosenthal et Nastassja Martin” (2022) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 16(2), pp. 89–108. doi:10.51777/relief13465.