Autobiography. Present in Georges Perec's writings but only in a profoundly revisionary way. In order to get a genuine understanding of his works, we must begin by recognizing the centrality of the Jewish genocide, the Shoah, in the writer's existence as well as in his activity. / Unprovided with a story of his own, the writer surely felt the imbalance between what the autobiographical tradition offered him and his need to fashion the ephemeral recollections of his past. Hence, he had to destabilize the very idea of autobiographical narrative by writing out his story in a singular and distinct manner. / While reversing the traditional pattern of autobiography, Georges Perec tries to find the most appropriate literary form to record the enormity of the human loss caused by the event. Despite the fact that he is neither a victim nor a survivor, the writer has succeeded in replying to the Holocaust threat to impose silence, by writing a text that occupies a legitimate place in this literature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.56765 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Molkou, Elizabeth |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001312753, proquestno: AAIMM80487, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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