Un mirage Sous la baguette du coudrier d’Éveline Bustros

Abstract

In Éveline Bustros novel Sous la baguette du coudrier, we sense the danger that a mother faces when discreetly feeling the ambivalent love, both maternal and erotic, towards a son. As a result of hazardous coincidence, she spontaneously falls in love with a filial substitute, her son’s friend, whose sensual desire, satisfying the libido of a socially frustrated mother would push her to the slope of adultery, a taboo rejected by her conservative rural social surrounding. As for the son, he adopted a confused attitude towards his mother: at times sly and affectionate, at others aggressive, vindictive, subjected blindly to the law of the prohibition of incest, respect of priority. In the end, a father figure will deliver him from all the latest latent issues and the remnants of the Oedipus complex, in an attempt on the life of that which is defiled with sacrilege by violating the laws of marital traditions to satisfy an incestuous desire, hidden and perilous.