Unpublished Paper
The Quasi-confessional Autobiography: Mort d'un silence, by Clémence Boulouque
(2008)
Abstract
Since 2003, when Clémence Boulouque's memoir, Mort d'un silence, was published, its author has written in a variety of genres, including novels, articles, and film scripts. Mort d'un silence, her first autobiographical work, interests the reader for several reasons: it revisits Judge Gilles Boulouque's suicide in December 1990 and the consequences of this act for his family, especially his thirteen-year-old daughter, Clémence; it recalls the political climate in France during the late 1980s, when Gilles Boulouque had already begun to fight terrorism; and it illustrates the tension between disclosure and concealment as its twenty-six-year-old narrator describes her passage from childhood to adulthood following her father's death.
Keywords
- Memoir,
- autobiography,
- <em>Juge Gilles Boulouque</em>,
- 1980s France,
- anti-terrorism,
- suicide
Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
Citation Information
Jane E Evans. "The Quasi-confessional Autobiography: Mort d'un silence, by Clémence Boulouque" (2008) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jane_evans/15/