Vulnérabilité et isolement dans Rosie Carpe de Marie Ndiaye

Authors

Amélie Michel, Université Laval

Abstract

This article focuses on the topic of vulnerability and the ambivalence of the heroine's strategies of resistance in Marie NDiaye's novel Rosie Carpe. The analysis of Rosie's detachment, oblivion and fantasy demonstrates how memory, consciousness and imagination can become areas of resistance in front of an unbearable reality. As a matter of fact, Rosie proposes an inner reconfiguration of the reality which, by its oversights and alterations, gives her the possibility to escape suffering, obligation and sin. This way, she widens the gap with herself and the world in order to protect herself. Paradoxically, this gap condemns her to apathy and takes away her power of action.

Recommended Citation

Michel, Amélie (2020) "Vulnérabilité et isolement dans Rosie Carpe de Marie Ndiaye," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 94: No. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol94/iss1/7