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My Bad Thoughts

Nina Bouraoui · 2005 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A single unbroken monologue addressed to a psychoanalyst, in which a narrator circles an Algerian-French childhood and a swarm of obsessive thoughts she cannot dismiss. The speech presses on without pause or relief. A key novel of Bouraoui's work on origin and the body.

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Attributes

Genre
Psychological
Theme
Identity & SelfMadnessObsessionIsolation & Alienation
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Everyman
Form
ConfessionUnreliable Narrator
Symbol / motif
The Mirror
Conflict
vs Self
Mode / tone
LyricalRealist
Culture / tradition
French

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