La mémoire et le magma chez Claude Simon : jeu de la mémoire et de l’oubli, jeu de la mémoire avec l’immémorial
Memory and Magma in Claude Simon’s Writings: Interplay of Memory and Oblivion, Interplay of Memory and Immemorial

Summary/Abstract: The question of memory and obliviousness is a fundamental stake in Claude Simon’s work. His endeavour was to restore a holistic/complete form from which nothing seems to be forgotten. Nevertheless, such a holistic mode of writing faces the problem of what is fragmentary. Indeed if on the one hand memory appears as a whole, on the other hand it is also a collection of fragments which reshape themselves in different ways, thus producing different realities and different understandings of the link between memory and obliviousness. From this stems the need to think such a link not through the notions of activity and passivity but rather through what the author calls magma, an entity which is difficult to grap and which opens on a memory of the immemorial. This paper aims at reporting this endeavour of Claude Simon’s work.

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