TY  - CHAP
A1  - Sauter, Caroline
T1  - The mother tongue of love and loss : Albert Cohen's "Le livre de ma mère"
T2  - Untying the mother tongue / ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo ; Cultural Inquiry ; 26
N2  - This article reads Albert Cohen's "Le Livre de ma mère", which mourns the death of his mother, as a poetics of love and loss. It is a poetics of otherness that disavows the claim to expression and selfhood. The mother, being the paradigmatic figure of otherness, is a figure for literature, a form of language that is characterized by saying things differently. Literature itself is a motherly space insofar as it others the language of the self. This argument is developed along close readings of both the French original and the English translation of Cohen's work, following three thematic axes: first, the peculiar kinship of love and death; second, the mother as the other; third, literature as filio-logy: a logic of filiation that does not leave the self unchanged.
KW  - Cohen, Albert
KW  - Le livre de ma mère
KW  - Tod <Motiv>
KW  - Liebe <Motiv>
KW  - Mutter <Motiv>
KW  - Muttersprache
KW  - Mother
KW  - Mother tongue
KW  - Death
KW  - Love
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75599
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755999
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-26/sauter_mother-tongue-of-love-and-loss.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-050-3
SN  - 978-3-96558-051-0
SN  - 978-3-96558-049-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 165
EP  - 179
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -