Les lieux de mémoire dans l’œuvre de Patrick Modiano

Authors : Bülent Çağlakpinar

Pages : 137-158

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Publication Date : 2021-06-23

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The present work aims to study first the repetitive elements in the content and in the narration and then the representation of the city as part of literary discourse through the three novels L’Horizon, L’Herbe des nuits, Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier of 2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature Jean Patrick Modiano. Lost women, amateur research, diaries and journeys, the mechanism of remembering or the omnipresent forgetting are revealed as leitmotifs in P. Modiano’s writing. The narrators particularly specify the space-time frameworks using objects, testimonies, facts and personal memory. In each story, the reader experiences a triple temporal sequence (childhood, youth and adult), and a mobile space that becomes the x-ray of Paris. The writer draws an emotional / romantic map of the city through memories, walks and surveys that take the form of introspection not only for the protagonists but also for society itself. This article seeks to highlight the presentation of places, their transformations, effect, and function at the cognitive level. We propose a narratological and intertextual reading of the work of P. Modiano.
Keywords : City, space, oblivion, memory, intertextuality