Contre-histoire et contre-mémoires dans Le Complot contre l’Amérique de Philip Roth

Even if Roth’s protagonists have not experienced the Holocaust, the writer’s novels bear the indelible stamp of the holocaust. A gnawing guilt feeling toward the victims of the catastrophe he was spared runs through Roth’s entire œuvre and comes to the fore once again in The Plot against America (2...

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Auteur principal: Savin, Ada
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_191_0079RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2009-2-page-79?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.191.0079 Contre-histoire et contre-mémoires dans Le Complot contre l’Amérique de Philip Roth Savin, Ada2009 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 191 | 2 | 2009-10-14 | p. 79-94 | 2111-885X RHSHO_19132 Even if Roth’s protagonists have not experienced the Holocaust, the writer’s novels bear the indelible stamp of the holocaust. A gnawing guilt feeling toward the victims of the catastrophe he was spared runs through Roth’s entire œuvre and comes to the fore once again in The Plot against America (2004). The novel combines “false memories” and (science) fiction in the narrative of an “alternative history”. Roth ups the ante one more time as he imagines his family’s “counterlife” within a horrid “counterhistory”, an America turned fascist under the imaginary presidency of Charles Lindbergh. By choosing “to illuminate the past through the past”, Roth has erected a giant and enigmatic symbol whose meaning is for the reader to define.Cairn free access
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description Even if Roth’s protagonists have not experienced the Holocaust, the writer’s novels bear the indelible stamp of the holocaust. A gnawing guilt feeling toward the victims of the catastrophe he was spared runs through Roth’s entire œuvre and comes to the fore once again in The Plot against America (2004). The novel combines “false memories” and (science) fiction in the narrative of an “alternative history”. Roth ups the ante one more time as he imagines his family’s “counterlife” within a horrid “counterhistory”, an America turned fascist under the imaginary presidency of Charles Lindbergh. By choosing “to illuminate the past through the past”, Roth has erected a giant and enigmatic symbol whose meaning is for the reader to define.
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