Représentation du refoulement de l’inceste : l’(anti)Œdipe dans l’œuvre d’Agota Kristof

Abstract

Abstract Several haunting themes inhabit the border writing of Agota Kristof including incest between brother and (half)sister and schizoid twinhood. Whereas fusion and duplication treats her in-between position between East and West as well as between a younger brother whom the mother considered as her favourite and an elder brother whom she herself passionately loved, the issue of a deuleuzian decontextualization and the representation of the suppression of incest motivating her writing range from a rejection to an approach of the Oedipus complex. The urge to write has finally faded away leaving a last uncompleted and unpublished novel, about which she speaks in her interviews and whose destiny could be related to a painful focalisation on a personal myth linked to a friend and surrogate father. Kristof died in 2011. She was 75 years old.