De l’endurance à la résilience : les romans de Felicia Mihali

Abstract Female characters occupy a special place in Felicia Mihali’s novels. Victims of both Man and History, they show a remarkable endurance in the face of life’s difficulties. Special attention will be paid to the novels Le Pays du fromage [The Land of Cheese] and Confession pour un ordinateur [Confession to a Computer] whose narrators (re)construct their identity from fragmented memories, readings, and reveries. With the help of Boris Cyrulnik’ observations, this article will show how these enduring women’s resilience is “knitted” concurrently with that of their people, a people tried by many social and historic disruptions.