Construction du temps mythique en tant qu’arme contre l’oubli dans l’œuvre de Sylvie Germain
Construction of mythical time as a weapon against oblivion in the work of Sylvie Germain

Summary/Abstract: The present work focuses on ancient traditions and habits specific to the archaic world painted by Sylvie Germain as markers of a mythical time that awakens nostalgia for a heavenly time. The childhood spent with her grandparents in the Morvan permeates the imagination of the writer who, through writing, fights against oblivion, bringing out to the surface the rural universe where man lived in peace with nature and with God. First, the current analysis is based on the dichotomy made by Mircea Eliade between mythical time and historical time as the trigger for the nostalgia for the Golden Age. Then, on the theories of Maurice Halbwachs on collective memory and finally, on the distinction made by Henri Bergson between habitual memory and pure memory. Through habits and ancient traditions, Sylvie Germain achieved a real abolition of historical time describing the access to the illud tempus paradisiac which characterized the human species before the fall. She creates incredible "stories of memory", defined by Dominique Viart as the result of a pressing memory, arising from the unconscious, through powerful writing images, hypotyposis being the figure of choice.

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