Portrait de W., suivi de, L'oeuvre du souvenir

• Main Author: Soucy, Linda.
• Other Authors: Rivard, Yvon (advisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: fr
• Published: McGill University 1998
• Subjects: Memory in literature.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20472

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.