The Image of the Mother in Lionel Duroy’s Autobiographical Fiction

Abstract

Lionel Duroy’s novels are a paradigmatic example of general success, not only among the self-fiction readers. In this article, the image of the mother will be analysed from several points of view -psychoanalytical, narrative and generic. So, in the diverse context of self-literature, psychological, social and ideological features of the mother will be studied first in Duroy’s novels. Later, we will analyse the image of the mother as a stimulus in the writing process. Finally, the function of the oedipal conflict in these novels and the influence on its narrative construction will be dissected. This subject will allow us to establish interesting connections with Rousseau’s Confessions