DYNAMIQUE DE LA MÉMOIRE DANS DORA BRUDER DE PATRICK MODIANO
DYNAMIQUE DE LA MÉMOIRE DANS DORA BRUDER DE PATRICK MODIANO

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses Dora Bruder, a hybrid text by Patrick Modiano: this is not only a novel, but also a document, the biography of a Jewish teenager who lived in Paris during the Occupation, and an autobiographical confession. The heroine’s fate is part of a community’s fate, and individual memory is strictly connected with the collective one, as Maurice Halbwachs noticed. Memories can be “recognized and reconstructed” as long as the common series of experiences is activated, because we never remember anything alone, as Halbwachs also stated. Space is an extremely important element in the reconstruction of the past: all the approaches of the narrator-investigator are based upon the revisitation of the topography of past events. By identifying himself with the heroine, without forgetting other important characters of his epoch, the narrator recreates a historical paradigm from a subjective and believable perspective.

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