Oubli(s) et mémoire dans La Mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs d’Annie Lulu
Forgetfulness(s) and memory in Annie Lulu’s La Mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs

Summary/Abstract: A polysemous word, forgetting is defined as "loss of memory", as "difficulty or inability to bring back to consciousness the memory of someone or something", but also as "failure to be what one is. held to do”, “not wanting to take someone or something into account” or as“removing from his thinking an object of concern or resentment ”(Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales). Memory, on the other hand, is defined as the totality "of memories, near or far, [...] recorded, preserved and restored" in the mental field of the person ; in psychology, it is viewed as "the brain’s recording of past events", "reconstruction of recent past events" or "reconstruction of a more distant past" (Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales). In our contribution, we propose to decipher the scope of these two parameters in Annie Lulu’s novel La mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs where forgetting and memory seem to have definitively marked the protagonists: the mother wants to forget the past and wants to hide from her daughter the truth about her father returning to his country of origin; the daughter wants to restore her past, find her identity etc.

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