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The Life-giving Archive. A Stockpile of Memory in Albert Cohen’s Work

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to present a study of several, crucial themes in the writings by Albert Cohen, in the light of Jacques Derrida’s concept of the archive. The presence of the experience of the Jewish nation is fixedly important in Cohen’s work. In this article, my objective is to prove that Cohen’s writing process significantly exceeds the common patterns of thinking about the past or even about the Jewish identity, of which an important component is the continuity of the relationship with the ancestors. Owing to the Derridean concept of the archive, it becomes possible to observe the significance of the past activity and its consequences for the subject’s identity.

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