(In)visible perseverance of absence. The form’s importance in Les Années by Annie Ernaux Cover Image

(In)visibles persévérances de l’absence. Les enjeux de la mise en forme dans Les Années d'Annie Ernaux
(In)visible perseverance of absence. The form’s importance in Les Années by Annie Ernaux

Author(s): Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: absence; memory; testimony; Ernaux; Les Années

Summary/Abstract: A dialectic between presence and absence, remembrance and oblivion, testimony and silence, body and its trace reflects the gist of the most recent Ernaux’es book. It constitutes not only plenteaus thematic confluence but also or even majorly an axis of the book’s construction. Its structure encompasses various layers such as: rhetorical, stylistic and typographic, which separately and together combined reside in prevailing tensioned coexistence of presence and absence.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 122-136
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French