https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-8912
Piotr Sadkowski est docteur habilité à l’Université Nicolas Copernic de Toruń. Ses recherches concernent, entre autres, l’écriture migrante au Québec et en France, la thématique juive, le mythe, la mémoire et la post‐mémoire. Il a publié Récits odysséens. Le thème du retour d’exil dans l’écriture migrante au Québec et en France (Toruń, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2011) ainsi que des articles dans des revues universitaires et ouvrages collectifs en Pologne et à l’étran ger ; coauteur, avec Anna Branach‐Kallas, de Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977‐2014) (Leiden, Brill Rodopi, 2018).
Piotr Sadkowski
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 18, 2019, pp. 61 - 73
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.19.013.10698The return of the theme of the Great War in literature imposes on the contemporary reader a double heritage: that of grief and guilt. The postmemory rediscovery of loss is therefore accompanied by a prise de conscience of forgetting or indifference, in family memory and History, in relatoon to war’s anonymous victims. In the fiction compared in this paper, Douze lettres au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau, loss is thematized by deconstructing the specter of the Great War. The two authors attempt to libertate the specters from the aura of anxiety, on the one hand in the hope of taming the past, on the other to give voice, as well individual integrity, to the forgotten subjects of the Great War.
Piotr Sadkowski
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 20, 2019, pp. 25 - 37
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.19.026.11550In his Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle, published in 2017, Alexandre Gefen highlights writing practices that have some beneficial impact on the experience of disease. I situate in this perspective Caroline Gutmann’s novel Les Papillons Noirs (2018), which is a unique fusion of autopathography (Grisi) with a filiation narrative (Viart). Two dimensions of filiation are under analysis – the familial and the mythical and literary ones – which become for the “writing I” a therapeutic means of fighting with cancer, as well as intergenerational traumas liberated in the process of reading/writing from the family “crypt” (Törok).