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Comment la littérature réinvente la mémoire
Claude Burgelin
"Science Magazine La Recherche - Special Edition 'La Mémoire et l'Oubli', July-August 2001"
3460 words
"By definition, writing is a type of memory. It preserves traces and defies death. In the wake of WWII, a number of French writers, including Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano, Claude Simon and Nathalie Sarraute, renewed this ancestral art. Their literature reveals to what point human memory is plunder, treachery and shameless theft."