Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
LITERA-JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES, cilt.35, sa.2, ss.397-411, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
In this paper, we aim to analyse M & eacute;lissa Da Costa's novel LaFaiseuse d'& Eacute;toiles(The Star Maker) using theories of semiotics and narratology. This novel, marked by dual temporality, contains two types of narrative: a frame narrative and a framed narrative. In the framed narrative, the narrator looks back on the past and recounts his traumatic childhood memories of his mother's death and his parents' lies. In the frame narrative, we find the protagonist's mourning and forgiveness in the present tense. We will study the protagonist's journey in terms of Greimasian semiotics at the discursive, narrative, and tensive levels. First, we will analyse the modes of the mother's presence in her son's life on the life/death and presence/absence axes. Second, we will study the stages of forgiveness followed by the protagonist on the axes of /distancing/, /acceptance/, /understanding/, and /peace/. We observe that the completion of the journey of forgiveness changes the mother's mode of presence, and the two stories come together at this point. Our analysis allows us to define parenthood using the semiotics of /presence/, namely that the child invading the field of presence of his parent permanently changes his perception, presence, and existence.