Publication details
La remémoration chez Jean Rouaud : de la recomposition d'une mémoire familiale au roman a la mémoire nationale
| Title in English | Remembering in Jean Rouaud's novels from recomposing of family memory to novels od national memory |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Famille et relations familiales dans les littératures francaise et francophone |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Jean Rouaud; modernity; french contemporary novel; family; memory |
| Description | In his first novels Jean Rouaud lists the greatest cataclysms of modern time by the means of a family memory. Our present emerged from these major flaws and originates in two memoirs: those of the nation and the family. The two have been either forgotten or silenced by a generalizing discourse minimalizing the issue of individual war victims. Jean Rouaud's writing seems to struggle, silently, against forgetfulness that is progressive yet becomes unlivable for many contemporary authors. The study looks more closely at this entirely original way of analysing and interpreting modern history through individual histories of the author's ancestors. The author's cyclical and spiral shaped writing suceeds in getting rid of pathos and thanks to an original poetics and a sense of irony manages not to fall into the trap of the sense deprived official discourse on war and its heroes. |
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