Language:
French
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Sciences Humaines
Angaben zur Quelle:
321 (2016) 69-81
Keywords:
Modiano, Patrick,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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History in literature
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Collective memory
Abstract:
Contains reflections on the relationship between history, memory, and literature, and the intertwining of fact and fiction in "hybrid" works such as those by French Jewish authors Olivia Rosenthal, Cécile Wajsbrot, and Patrick Modiano, as well as an analysis of Patrick Modiano's "Dora Bruder" (1997). Contends that these writers, who belong to the second or third generation, have responded to the intergenerational obligation to remember. Their historical novels represent what Ivan Jablonka calls "creative history" and they share two, partly contradictory, narrative strategies: attempts to reconstruct a past the authors did not experience and doubts regarding the validity of their own projects. These works explore the gap between official history, collective memory, and personal memory, and trace the distance between what can and cannot be said. Regarding "Dora Bruder", emphasizes the burden of history and obligation to remember, and the suffering this may entail.
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