Le silence entre Oubli et Mémoire dans Le Ghetto intérieur : fonctionnement, valeurs, témoignage
Silence Between Forgetfulness and Memory in Le Ghetto Intérieur: Use, Values, Testimony

Summary/Abstract: The novel by Santiago Amigorena, who was on the 2019 Goncourt finalists list, bears the imprint of the heavy suffering that this theme of the Shoah will always involve, what has also been called the indescribable. The inner ghetto of the son is not only a mirror image of the ghetto that the mother had lived, but it is another way of expressing the intolerable torment, the dismay in front of the evil of the world, death, absence, helplessness in the face of horror, sometimes even cowardice. The inner ghetto is also a name of silence, of an effort to be absent from oneself, a name of isolation, of an attempt to immerse yourself in the forgetting of the real, of the exterior. Amigorena's novel becomes, through the putting into words of a testimony, and therefore the overcoming of silence and forgetting, a work of recovery of the story of a life, that of the author's grandfather, Vicente Rosenberg, and that of her great-grandmother, Gustawa Goldwag, deported and died in Treblinka, after an arrest of about three years in the Warsaw ghetto. We propose to highlight through this study the way in which silence is constructed at the interface of forgetting and memory as a throbbing, ineffaceable questioning, and also its functioning, its virtues, its poetics of testimony.

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