Écriture et silence : texte-écran et texte-énigme dans « Evermore » de Julian Barnes

In this short story where a tireless struggle against oblivion is fought, memory is presented as an elaborate way to silence the dead. Whereas memory remains unaware of its fictional nature, fiction widens the gap through doubling and parody. But writing appears also as an attempt to pass the barrie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pascale Tollance
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2007-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/12454
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Summary:In this short story where a tireless struggle against oblivion is fought, memory is presented as an elaborate way to silence the dead. Whereas memory remains unaware of its fictional nature, fiction widens the gap through doubling and parody. But writing appears also as an attempt to pass the barriers of fiction and metafiction so as to produce another type of gap and conjure up the unknown and the unpredictable.
ISSN:1168-4917
2271-5444