In this first novel, the hero undergoes an initiation, a mix between “loss,” a desire to disappear into the world, and “avarice,” the self-preservation instinct that changes this death drive into demiurgic speech. The motif of the flower allows us to explore how to resolve the contradiction.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques