Avatars de la fée dans l’oeuvre autobiographique de Michel Leiris, de L’Âge d’homme à Fibrilles

Abstract

This study focuses on the figure of the fairy in the work of Michel Leiris, drawing on fairy tales but especially on chivalric romances. By distinguishing two medieval figures of the fairy (the lover and the godmother), it is easy to see that Leiris, in L’Âge d’homme , refers to the first one as an ambiguous sexual creature, at once enchanting and destructive. But traces of the latter can be found in