Abstract
A child of the exodus and the war herself, and shocked by the indifference or lack of understanding with which the experiences of children in exile have long been treated, the children's author Elzbieta has devoted her work to "reviving the child's way (...) of thinking about the world". by revisiting as accurately as possible the intimate experience of the person she once was.
The loss of all conscious memories of her early years and her culture of origin, the learning and then forgetting of multiple languages in the course of her exile, including her native language, the death of her father and the uprooting from her family, the shaky and sometimes abused construction of identity, the mortal dangers of nostalgia, But the relativisation of values and open-mindedness, the importance of codes, oral tales and still images in her understanding of the world make up her baggage as a child in exile, which she analyses with finesse in L'enfance de l'art et la Nostalgie aborigène, and of which we find many traces in her work.