The first part of this M.A. thesis is composed of four stories whose common thread is memory. Childhood, first love, the betrayals of adult life, the approach of death. Four stages in a life narrated in the first and third person singular, four stories that could belong to the same female narrator. / The second part is an essay on the role of memory in literary creation. Various aspects of this issue are addressed, drawing mainly on the conceptions of Milan Kundera: "memory is a form of forgetting"; Paul Auster: memory is the buried source from which writing is born; and Peter Handke: the writer must draw from the deepest level of his experience and detach himself from it in order to create.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20472 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Soucy, Linda. |
| Contributors | Rivard, Yvon (advisor) |
| 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: 001610112, proquestno: MQ43952, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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