La figure de l’enfant monstrueux et le surnaturel dans le romanesque d’Anne Duguël
The Monstrous Child and the Supernatural in Anne Duguël’s Novels

Author(s): Agnieszka Loska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: monstrous child; fear; horror; supernatural; neofantastic; Anne Duguël;
Summary/Abstract: Although we always tend to perceive children as pure and innocent beings, fantastic literature aims to break with their idealized image by presenting them as a corrupted sadists who feed on their victims’ fear and suffering. L’asile de la mariée and Mon âme est une porcherie are two novels by Anne Duguël, a contemporary Belgian francophone author of fantastic literature, in which, by introducing the supernatural elements, she depicts two children who commit ferocious acts. The aim of the article is to present and characterize these cruel children in order to examine the origins of the evil that has invaded them and the causes of their thirst of blood forcing them to commit several abominable crimes.

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