Au-delà des mères perdues ou comment nommer la mère après la Shoah
Beyond the Lost Mothers or: How to Name the Mother after the Shoah

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the relationship between mothers and daughters in the French literature, taking as its starting point the Holocaust as it was experienced by these two authors, Sarah Kofman and Esther Orner. For most Holocaust survivors, this is, at first, to find the words to break the silence, find the words to describe the indescribable and, therefore, with writing, these two writers try to recover the time spent, the one where as children they had had a mother to love. Mothers lost in the pain of separation that would give them a new life, another mother. So what to call these mothers lost when another mother had cradled in her womb? Through the writing of Sarah Kofman and Esther Orner, we make this journey against time.

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