%0 Journal Article
%T Therapeutic Filiations in Les Papillons Noirs by Caroline Gutmann
%A Sadkowski, Piotr
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.19.026.11550
%N Numéro 20
%P 25-37
%K Filiation narrative, autopathography, phantom, crypt
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/des-filiations-therapeutiques-dans-les-papillons-noirs-de-caroline-gutmann
%X In his Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle, published in 2017, Alexandre Gefen highlights writing practices that have some beneficial impact on the experience of disease. I situate in this perspective Caroline Gutmann’s novel Les Papillons Noirs (2018), which is a unique fusion of autopathography (Grisi) with a filiation narrative (Viart). Two dimensions of filiation are under analysis – the familial and the mythical and literary ones – which become for the “writing I” a therapeutic means of fighting with cancer, as well as intergenerational traumas liberated in the process of reading/writing from the family “crypt” (Törok).