L’exil pour unique présence L’enfance comme désir de s’originer

In the literature of young French migrants, exile suffered during childhood is an identity marker for the little heroes. Struck by the feeling of the “tragedy of the too-late”, their foray into France is one lived between taboo and the difficulty of assimilating. Through the child’s quest, between will and the desire for autonomy, libido sciendi and a desire to grow up, there is tension between the perpetuation of a common original cultural model and the empirical appropriation of new cultural codes.