TY - JOUR
TI - « Nothing could be clearer »: Names and faces memory in Romain Gary's work
AU - Viron, Sébastien
TI - « Nothing could be clearer »: Names and faces memory in Romain Gary's work
AB - We will examine the largely ethical vocation of Romain Gary's memorial writing project, which leads it to metamorphose itself into a literary tomb of the forgotten dead. We will then discuss, from a more narratological point of view, how this memory emerges untimely in the narrative and sometimes frees itself from it to signify the transcendent character of the name and the face. Finally, we will show that Gary goes beyond the somewhat naive vision of the memory as a mere recorder of events or images by associating it with the imagination to give it a poetic and counter-historical use.
VL - 2022
IS - Numéro 32
PY - 2022
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 70
EP - 87
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.22.021.17160
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/car-on-ne-saurait-mieux-dire-la-memoire-des-noms-et-des-visages-dans-loeuvre-de-romain-gary
KW - Gary
KW - face
KW - name
KW - memory
KW - imagination