Politique et poétique du roman sur la Shoah : l’engagement de l’écriture contre la banalité du mal dans The Zone of Interest de Martin Amis (2014)
This article purports to investigate Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel, The Zone of Interest (2014), with a view to highlighting the abjection that the novel triggers in its reader and the ethical process which is thereby produced. As she is made to actively collaborate in the narrative through her reco...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3169 |
| Summary: | This article purports to investigate Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel, The Zone of Interest (2014), with a view to highlighting the abjection that the novel triggers in its reader and the ethical process which is thereby produced. As she is made to actively collaborate in the narrative through her reconstruction of the diegesis and of the very meaning of the four narratives intersecting in the text, the reader is forced to re-member the dismembered fragments of history sent floating along the four narrators’s streams of consciousness. This is performed at a high cost, since re-membering implies the filling in of the gaps in the text’s gaping wounds and therefore the imaginary complementation of represented violence. The blending of facts and fiction in The Zone of Interest aims to bear witness to the traumatic import of the war while reconstructing a fuzzy memory of the holocaust interspersed with a selected number of scenes of great clarity and violence. The novel’s commitment to the rendering of traumatic memory thus impacts the reader in a lasting way and makes her experience the very unreadability and complexity of the historical event as a necessary call for our commitment to thinking through the history of the camps. |
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| ISSN: | 1168-4917 2271-5444 |