Écriture du deuil comme interrogation de soi : Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques de Catherine Mavrikakis
Writing of mourning as a form of self-interrogation: Catherine Mavrikakis’s Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques

Summary/Abstract: This article is based on the hypothesis that Catherine Mavrikakis’s debut novel Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques (A cannibal and melancholy mourning, 2000), with its many autobiographic features, should not be treated as a mere therapeutic piece of writing. The introductory section takes a closer look at the autofictional practices of this contemporary Quebec writer. Subsequently, the article demonstrates that the novel’s preoccupation with mourning represents an original way of approaching life from the perspective of finitude and enables Mavrikakis, who is stuck in an identity crisis, to question her becoming a writer through a network of both real and imaginary relationships.

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