Based on a survey of references to the eye in Les Chants de Maldoror, Kevin Saliou examines the maternal figure under whose gaze the narrator repeatedly places himself. Should we read this as a biographical clue and link the mother, with her glassy gaze, to the poet’s lost mother?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques