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In his Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle, published in 2017, Alexandre Gefen highlights writing practices that have some beneficial impact on the experience of disease. I situate in this perspective Caroline Gutmann's novel Les Papillons Noirs (2018), which is a unique fusion of autopathography (Grisi) with a filiation narrative (Viart). Two dimensions of filiation are under analysis -- the familial and the mythical and literary ones -- which become for the "writing I" a therapeutic means of fighting with cancer, as well as intergenerational traumas liberated in the process of reading/writing from the family "crypt" (Törok). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]