ABSTRACT
George Sand's life and the way she tells it in her autobiography demonstrate particularly clearly the relevance of perspectives, and the most frui. Since Jean-Jacques Rousseau, autobiographies have focused more on childhood as the origin of and key to the adult; and a child's life is necessarily dominated by the presence of its parents. Richard Coe, in his study of childhood narratives, notices the predominance of unusual and unbalanced family relationships in the childhoods of autobiographers. The shape of the autobiographical narrative is often determined by the pattern of the relationship between a parent and the narrator whose conscious or unconscious aim in writing his life story is to recover what he has lost or come to terms with what he missed. In order to explain Sand's contradictory gender identifications and their resolution into a kind of androgyny, these readings tend to privilege either her absent father or her unsatisfied love for her mother, although still taking account of both.
