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“Je-sans-moi”: Patients, Pain, and Painlessness in Malraux’s Lazare
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 25-37
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0020
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Focusing on André Malraux’s month-long hospitalization that led to his 1972 text Lazare, this article singles out three interrelated topics – namely that of pain and painlessness, the doctor-patient encounter and self-identity in illness narratives – in order to argue that Malraux’s exploration of patienthood importantly challenges the genre of autopathography.