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Article published In: Revue Romane
Vol. 59:2 (2024) ► pp.230–247

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Dans l’ombre de la guerre

Distances mémorielles dans Pas pleurer (2014) de Lydie Salvayre et L’Art de perdre (2017) d’Alice Zeniter

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Article language: French

Published online: 26 November 2024
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Abstract
This article explores memorial distances — i.e., forms of distances that are both personal, temporal, medial, cultural, linguistic, and hermeneutic — in Pas pleurer by Lydie Salvayre (2014) and L’Art de perdre by Zeniter, A. (2017): L’Art de perdre. Flammarion, Paris.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar. The two novels are retellings of violent and traumatic historical events — the Spanish war and the Algerian war respectively — by persons who did not themselves witness these events. As such, they are emblematic examples of indirect mediation of conflict memory. The article emphasizes the importance of studying the complexity and the multiplicity of memorial distances in such narratives and argues that such an approach allows a broader and deeper understanding of the multi-layered memory work that takes place in Pas pleurer and L’Art de perdre.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Énonciation
  • 2.Documentation
  • 3.Traduction
  • 4.Transformation
  • Conclusion
  • Remarques
  • Bibliographie
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