VOYAGES EXTERIEURS ET INTERIEURS DANS LE PAYS DE MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL VOYAGES IN MARIE DARIEUSSECQ'S THE COUNTRY

Summary/Abstract: The deterritorialization and one of its effects, the diasporic identity, are common on all continents. Back to her country of origin, a country half-real half-invention, the narrator of Marie Darrieussecq's “The Country” is in quest of herself and finds roots and links through the dead people in her family, then through the living ones, the child in her womb and also through the strange mother tongue that she has to learn again as an adult. Thus, a dead language becomes more important than the French language that she adopted, a small country becomes the new "Home" (and "Homeland" as well?) over Paris and the hologram of a beloved person that is dead is pursued, then rejected. An unexpected spiritual voyage is beginning to take shape, between the fringes of memory and the keen perception of the present.

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