L’exécution des fées ou l’impossible retour à l’origine dans Le Ravissement d’Andrée A. Michaud

Abstract

: By showing two, or multiple, faces, the mythical figure of the fairy unfolds in an ambivalent way in the novel Le Ravissement . If, traditionally, this mainly feminine and benevolent character is associated with guidance, Andrée A. Michaud, for her part, changes the meaning, for what the fairy always escorts in a slow descent into hell that leads the protagonists to madness. Linked to distraction, this figure also summons the symbolism of the fall. The michaudian fairy is a figure of perdition and transgression who, borrowing the features of the witch and the mermaid, symbolizes a problematic relationship with the Origin and circumscribes its nostalgic contours. Mots-clés