Le silence, ce cri qui résonne dans l’écriture de Viviane Forrester

• Main Author: Amelia Peral Crespo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE) 2015-11-01
• Series: Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses
• Subjects: Silence; Memory; Holocaust; Cry; Forrester
• Online Access: https://cedille.webs.ull.es/M5/07peral.pdf

The Holocaust Literature is tied to Silence from its beginning as the writing to silence. Write about the Holocaust and relate the experiences lived in first person or transmit them to the coming generations means leaving the silence which, for years, was the ideal refuge. This research focuses on the literary production of Viviane Forrester. The different expressions of silence that characterize her writings are analyzed. Silence is the cry that underlies in the most profound of the human being that return from the concentration camps, as Lazarus from the dead. It is a silence that grows to a cry because Forrester’s writing, almost in parallel to the fragmentary writing of Blanchot, an-nounces livre à venir, expressing the cry in silence without the ending of the word