ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book analyses the representation of the mother offered in the work of Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux. Ernaux recognizes the multiple significations of motherhood contained in her literary productions as an inevitable consequence of the processes involved in writing the mother. The narrators frequently attempt to subject the mother to a kind of literary resuscitation in a bid to postpone the inevitable finality of death or narrative closure. The texts equally bear witness, moreover, to a sense of the inadequacy of the narrators writing project as a means of memorializing the lost maternal other. The fictional evocations of motherhood contained in the writings of Huston, Darrieussecq, Olmi and Angot echo the attacks on the limitations of dominant political and/or socio-cultural constructions of motherhood carried out by Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux.
