By Richard Goodkin
A well known and revered authority on French literature, women's writing, feminist thought, and Jewish experiences, Elaine Marks wrote groundbreaking books on Collette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jewish subject matters in French literature. In reminiscence of Elaine Marks keeps her legacy of rigorous highbrow exploration, enlivening scholarship in different parts of thought. The 11 essays within the assortment collect a couple of highbrow, political, and moral domain names that have been relevant to Marks's paintings: pedagogy, feminism, lesbianism, women's auto/biography, Jewish id, group, reminiscence, mourning, isolation, and loss of life. of their interpretations of works via Marks, Simone de Beauvoir, H?l?ne Cixous, Philip Roth, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Saint-Simon, los angeles Bruy?re, Marcel Proust, and others, the authors illustrate and interact Marks's existential imaginative and prescient, fearlessly probing the human event to make feel of the way we are living, die, and comprehend either.
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But is there a way to escape the power of memory, words inscribed in the deepest part of our consciousness that bring back the mother’s presence? In this light one could see a gesture of exorcism on Elaine’s part when, revising her childhood memory, she crosses out and seeks to eliminate the phrase “my whole life,” thus creating an infraction on narrative logic that risks lending a beyond-the-grave perspective to this autobiographical discourse. The abolition of temporal precision, not replaced by an expression such as “up to the present day,” is all the more reassuring in that, by preserving the verbal tense (“have followed me and pursued me”), the revised version seems to imply that the maternal ascendancy has now passed.
15 Simone de Beauvoir seems to have filled in a perceived gap, something lacking in Colette. In the first chapter of her study of the latter, Elaine clearly states: “Colette felt no estrangement from the world around her, no anxiety. . There is no metaphysical Debaisieux / “Memoirs of an Indocile Daughter” 45 anguish in Colette’s world” (Colette 8–9). More specifically, Colette excludes any reflections about death from her writings: “Death, suffering and illness are all foreseen, and are dismissed as uninteresting.
The defeat of language is total. (Encounters with Death 19, my emphasis) The juxtaposition of the two experiences might justify the change of register in Elaine’s commentary when she surprisingly abandons the literary critic’s voice in favor of the psychologist’s by noting: It might be suggested, too, that the child who has undergone this kind of metaphysical initiation will never be quite as docile as the child who has not, and that this experience, if it does indeed take place, will be the central experience of the entire life.
