How Can We Describe Childhood Shock for Emmanuel Adely

Abstract

Love me, look at me, make me live under your eyes, this is the petition that the narrative voice of Jeanne, Jeanne, Jeanne (2000) sends to his mother in a monologue obsessive. Taking further the thematic of the quest for love in this third novel, Adely writes a testimony to the border of a brooding psychotic rare emotional power. From his initial emotional trauma, the ‘I’ in search of ties, love and attachment, extracts the right words to tell his trauma: the abandonment by his biological mother of the newborn child that was it 37 years ago. Jeanne is this unknown, unseen, he calls and tries, leaving each page of this account of the absence of hollow cry and his vulnerability, his irritability and anxiety deadly earn a little more space to fill all his world. We propose a tripartite approach to this novel that highlights the unique combination of narrative writing Adely and then presents the neurotic pursuit of a son facing the shortcomings of his pedigree and finally outlines the psychoanalytic aspects of this novel approach to emotional hurts.