L’exile comme expérience de la séparation dans le discours littéraire sur l’enfance (Nabokov et Sarraute)

• Main Author: Daniela CATAU VERES
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava 2015-06-01
• Series: Anadiss
• Subjects: exile; Nabokov; Sarraute; speeches; identity; self-reconstruction; melancholy; grief; remembrance; childhood story
• Online Access: http://www.litere.usv.ro/anadiss/arhiva/anadiss19/8.%20CATAU-VEREA,%20Daniela.pdf

Writing exile recreates the experience of separation from the family or his country with sorrow it implies, while commemorating a lost world that thankfully can be retrieved by the memory. The childhood story implements indeed a self-reconstruction process, like a puzzle, which mobilizes different discursive means in the language rituals specific to each writer. Even fragmented, with no precise linearity or devoid of chronology, the childhood story is a means of escape from the prison that is the time especially for the writer in exile in a foreign country, like Nabokov and Sarraute, but also an opportunity to rebuild the original identity after the cultural shock of coming into contact with a foreign culture to the fragile age of childhood. The recovery of this identity is possible through research and the faithful transcription of memory.