La búsqueda de la propia identidad en L’exil est mon pays de Isabelle Alonso

Abstract

In L’exil est mon pays, Isabelle Alonso uses a childlike tone to describe in first person the memories of a girl born in France of Spanish parents. Everything turns around the search for identity of Angustias, who searches for the difference she perceives they consider her as a foreigner. Her inner world, re-presented by the house where she feels protected, faces the hard outside world of the street and the school, and the language will be the means that highlights that difference. Angustias’s story, like Isabelle Alonso’s, is the story of all those who feel alien in the place where they live, and it is also an ode to all those who have and will have the intimate wish to eventually be like the others, without never forgetting her origins.