La poétique de la (post)mémoire dans un roman (post)migratoire. Une lecture des Mots de Russie d’Isabelle Bielecki
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2022
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
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L’article constitue une analyse des Mots de Russie, roman autobiographique d’Isabelle Bielecki, écrivaine belge contemporaine d’origine russo-polonaise. Le cadre théorique de l’étude est fourni par deux concepts clés : la poétique romanesque de la mémoire de Jean-François Perrin et la postmémoire de Marianne Hirsch. L’auteur analyse la composition du texte, basée sur une (post)mémoire qui fait problème. Deux intrigues y coexistent : celle qui correspond au récit du retour des souvenirs et de ses circonstances ; et celle qui est constituée du contenu des souvenirs. Le phénomène de la postmémoire, résultat d’un traumatisme historique, modifie la poétique romanesque de la mémoire en y introduisant une structure discontinue, une incertitude quant à ce qui s’est passé, une coloration morale ambigüe des figures des victimes directes du traumatisme, un récit des souffrances physiques de ses victimes indirectes, mais aussi la possibilité de dépasser l’héritage traumatique grâce à l’écriture. La (post)mémoire apparaît ainsi comme un puissant stimulant créatif.
The article constitutes an analysis of Les Mots de Russie, an autobiographical novel by Isabelle Bielecki, a contemporary Belgian writer of Russian-Polish origin. The theoretical framework of the study is provided by two key concepts: Jean-François Perrin’s novelistic poetics of memory and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The author analyses the composition of the text, based on a problematic (post) memory. Two plots coexist there: one that corresponds to the story of the return of memories and its circumstances; and the other which is made up of the content of these memories. The phenomenon of post-memory, the result of a historical trauma, modifies the novelistic poetics of memory by introducing a discontinuous structure, uncertainty about what happened, an ambiguous moral aspect of the figures of direct victims of the trauma, the story of the physical sufferings of its indirect victims, but also the possibility of overcoming the traumatic legacy through writing. (Post)memory is thus presented as a powerful creative stimulus.
The article constitutes an analysis of Les Mots de Russie, an autobiographical novel by Isabelle Bielecki, a contemporary Belgian writer of Russian-Polish origin. The theoretical framework of the study is provided by two key concepts: Jean-François Perrin’s novelistic poetics of memory and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The author analyses the composition of the text, based on a problematic (post) memory. Two plots coexist there: one that corresponds to the story of the return of memories and its circumstances; and the other which is made up of the content of these memories. The phenomenon of post-memory, the result of a historical trauma, modifies the novelistic poetics of memory by introducing a discontinuous structure, uncertainty about what happened, an ambiguous moral aspect of the figures of direct victims of the trauma, the story of the physical sufferings of its indirect victims, but also the possibility of overcoming the traumatic legacy through writing. (Post)memory is thus presented as a powerful creative stimulus.
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littérature belge francophone, migration, mémoire, postmémoire, Isabelle Bielecki, Belgian literature in French, migration, memory, postmemory
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2022, nº 12, s. 174-184