Memory as Deranged and Immemorial in Josipovici’s Work
Josipovici’s fiction is often concerned with our difficult relation to the past. In four novels and a few short stories, he illustrates the dysfunction of memory in various manners: ‘confabulation’, inventions (opposed to the objective accuracy of inventories), amnesia, hypermnesia, paramnesia (‘déj...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2023
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | Josipovici’s fiction is often concerned with our difficult relation to the past. In four novels and a few short stories, he illustrates the dysfunction of memory in various manners: ‘confabulation’, inventions (opposed to the objective accuracy of inventories), amnesia, hypermnesia, paramnesia (‘déjà vu’ or ‘déjà prévu’). He also explores the fictionality of memory, giving a metacritical dimension to some of his work.Although the writer does not approve of memoirs and biographies which distort reality, he, paradoxically, published A Life, an account of his mother’s life, Sarah Rabinovitch, an autobiographical short story, He, and two autobiographical articles. Writing one’s memories is not so much remembering as forgetting and a way of turning, not only to the present, but also to the immemorial. |
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