Does french poetry written and published after the 1980's correspond to a disruption or to a re-appropriation of certain axes of aesthetic modernity? Even if in a provisional and brief way, the reading proposed here will try to answer this question, highlighting the structuring lines regarding the literature that marks the transition between the twentieth- and the twentyfirst century.

French writer with Portuguese origins, Brigitte Paulino-Neto has published four novels mainly in Portuguese narrative context. Though she is not a foreign writer, she happens to be presented, both in France and Portugal, as a migrant writer; which she is not either, except in a metaphoric meaning i.e. as a passeur between two worlds. After two papers about Brigitte Paulino-Neto’s other novel, I would like to propose an approach of her latest one Dès que tu meurs, appelle-moi (2010), in order to highlight the role of individual and collective memory, as well as the relevance of the symbolic function of the relationship daughter-mother. It will appear clearly that Brigitte Paulino-Neto does belong to French literature in all its extension though her work is deeply influenced by her Portuguese roots.