| Summary: | We will characterize the essayistic thought and the narrative fiction of French writer of Jewish origin, Marianne Rubinstein, according to the operative concept of « post-memory » put into orbit by Marianne Hirsch, more precisely her novels Tout le monde n’a pas la chance d’être orphelin (2002) and C’est maintenant du passé (2009). In fact, Marianne Rubinstein belongs to the growing group of French writers (such as J. Littell, P. Claudel, Y. Haenel, A. Rykner, K. Tuil, O. Benyahya, F. Humbert, T. Hesse, L. Binet) who relay and revisit somehow in fiction the trauma of the Holocaust endured by their ancestors during the Second World War (deportations, mass deaths, resistance, memories of war, various humiliations, etc.). In this respect, as Aurélie Barjonet has rightly pointed out about Marianne Rubinstein, « Family history always gives rise to an archaeological text », while « the majority of writers have turned to the transmission or fictionalization of ‘a true story’». It is at the crossroads of these two axes (autobiography and fiction) that we will try to place Marianne Rubinstein’s writing.
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