ENTRE REMINISCENCE ET DIVAGATION: LES « JEUX » DE LA MÉMOIRE
BETWEEN REMINISCENCE AND WANDERING: THE “GAMES” OF MEMORY

Summary/Abstract: According to Proust, writing would be an act of memory. Writers think, speak and write because others have done it before them. In a way, everything is rewritten and intertextuality is unique to any text. The new texts taking hold of the preceding texts in many ways, the literature multiplies its support on an “intertextuality” which is none other than the exploitation of a memorial background, a “memory of literature”. In this study, we will be interested in the “memory of literature”, in other words, in a memoir which has as its object literature and which is not the subject of literature in certain “autobiographical” novels by Alain Mabanckou. We will analyze his work which manifests in a particularly salient way the mobilization of the literary memory in the construction of the narrative. The text echoes many sources of world literature that make memory a true structuring agent of the narrative. We will demonstrate that these references within the text are subject to adjustment and modification, which is also ultimately the process of any act of memory.

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