Abstract

In Mémoire de fille and Une femme, Annie Ernaux uses her writing to trace the bodies of an adolescent girl, Annie D, and her mother, Blanche Duchesne. Ernaux’s pen gradually transforms the bodies of the two characters into a single shared body. Despite the age difference between the two characters, writing brings them closer together until they become one. This article explores the union of the two bodies and their blood as concrete evidence of their reality. By tracing the lives of Annie D and writing memory. The narrative is therefore the real (literary) body of the two women. The writing thus produces the bodies, while itself becoming the body of the characters.