This article analyses selected writings in French by Lydia Flem and Philippe Forest, with a focus on the intertextual presence of literary figures from well-known sources, identifications with figures from imaginary worlds and their relationship to the writing project. These authors’ curiosity about the place of storytelling in understanding selves and lives extends to the question of how literature connects with experiences that otherwise remain inaccessible or elude conscious awareness. The formal and thematic functions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan are examined in Flem’s Comment je me suis séparée de ma fille et de mon quasi-fils and Forest’s L’Enfant éternel. The article argues that via the perspectives of the (parental) narrators in both texts, these literary figures mobilize the creative expression of experiences of change and loss. The (re)turn to literature takes place not because it saves, or consoles, these writers insist; rather, they describe the compelling and paradoxically sustaining functions of reading and writing even as they precisely fail to offer up any certain resolution. Literature’s capacity to enliven curiosity about human experience means that writing is life; literary figures live with and in them. In a similar spirit to Deborah Levy’s description of ‘living autobiography’, the article argues that Flem and Forest attest to the need and desire to write in an ‘engaged’ way, characteristic of a writing practice that encompasses concrete and imaginary worlds, reality and fantasy. From explorations of transition and loss, Flem’s ‘bébé de papier’ and Forest’s ‘être de papier’ emerge.

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“越来越好奇”：莉迪亚·弗莱姆和菲利普·森林的法文著作中的童年形象

本文分析了莉迪亚·弗莱姆和菲利普·福雷斯特的法语作品选集，重点关注知名来源的文学人物的互文存在、对虚构世界人物的认同以及他们与写作项目的关系。这些作者对讲故事在理解自我和生活中的地位的好奇心延伸到文学如何与否则无法获得或逃避意识的经历联系起来的问题。刘易斯·卡罗尔（Lewis Carroll）的爱丽丝和JM巴里（JM Barrie）的彼得·潘（Peter Pan）的形式和主题功能在弗莱姆的《Comment je me suis séparée de ma fille et de mon quasi-fils》和福里斯特的《L'Enfant éternel》中得到了探讨。文章认为，通过两个文本中（父母）叙述者的视角，这些文学人物激发了对变化和失落经历的创造性表达。这些作家坚持认为，文学的（重新）回归并不是因为它能拯救或安慰；而是因为它能拯救人或安慰人。相反，它们描述了阅读和写作令人信服且自相矛盾的维持功能，尽管它们恰恰未能提供任何确定的解决方案。文学能够激发人们对人类经验的好奇心，这意味着写作就是生活；文学人物与他们共存并生活在其中。本着与黛博拉·利维（Deborah Levy）对“活生生的自传”的描述类似的精神，本文认为弗莱姆和福里斯特证明了以“参与”的方式写作的需要和愿望，这是一种涵盖具体和想象的世界、现实和世界的写作实践的特征。幻想。从对转变和失落的探索中，