Filiation protéiforme | 2026

254 untold or concealed family histories can resurface as symptoms or inner ghosts. By examining how the rupture of filiation or transmission can affect both the body and the psyche (even leading to sterility), the study adopts a comparative approach between two contemporary Italian narratives to show how the act of restoring a place for the absent and healing family memory opens a symbolic path of healing for the living. The findings highlight that revisiting the past, welcoming its shadows, and revealing its traces make it possible to repair interrupted transmission and transform buried memory into a promise for the future. Keywords: filiation, sterility, symptom, ghost, trace, history, memory. Ramona MALIȚA Abstract: Our study focuses on a masterpiece of medieval French literature, revisited from the perspective of filiation. Literary corpus: Le Roman de Renart , the edition published under the direction of Armand Strubel, in which the H manuscript of the Bnf of the canonical work in question is paramount. Working hypothesis: the filiation in Le Roman de Renart is less biological than spiritual, due to the satirical implications relating to the values preached by the church, which the anonymous author mocks by giving his characters the animal masks. Research results: we have identified three forms of filiation, corresponding to three different levels of generalization: biological filiation (with two subdivisions: the ‘small’ family and the extended family); spiritual filiation (immaterial heritage and family and societal “anti-values”; the good strategies for survival and success in life); satirical filiation (irony and satire of society’s axiological framework; the narrative sequence of episodes belonging to different branches of the text, repeated in later passages of this medieval masterpiece). Keywords: Roman de Renart, filiation, animal mask, medieval satire . Velimir Mladenović Abstract : In this article, we examine the function of literary quotation in the work of Pierre Assouline, considering intertextuality not as an ornament but as a structuring principle of his writing. Our objective is to show how quotation becomes, for this author, a critical tool, a gesture of filiation, and a vector of cultural memory. We deliberately chose to restrict our analysis to strictly literary citation-based intertextuality, leaving aside other domains (history, music, cinema) that also shape his universe. Our method is based on the study of a tripartite corpus: literary biographies (Simenon, Hergé, Gaston Gallimard, Albert Londres), which serve as a poetic and epistemological laboratory; identity- and memory-focused texts ( Retour à Séfarad , Vies de Job ), where quotation articulates self-inquiry, Jewish memory, and historical suffering; and finally, historical novels ( La Cliente , Lutetia , Sigmaringen , Le Paquebot ,