Monuments flaubertiens
In this article we reread Flaubert’s conclusions, starting from two observations: first, that they contain an excess of memory, due both to the characters and to the mementoes they collect; second, that these efforts to remember and preserve inevitably give way to oblivion. We interpret this combina...
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| description | In this article we reread Flaubert’s conclusions, starting from two observations: first, that they contain an excess of memory, due both to the characters and to the mementoes they collect; second, that these efforts to remember and preserve inevitably give way to oblivion. We interpret this combination of hypermnesia and amnesia as a problematic attempt to produce a memory of the text itself: in their final pages, Flaubert’s novels appear to be erecting their own monuments, while suggesting their inadequacy. Fiction, here, is at one and the same time the space in which a ‘memory crisis’ is unfolding and the very object of this crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-185719277a6c425998112d4a7bf646112025-02-05T16:29:42ZfraInstitut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique1969-61912019-12-012210.4000/flaubert.3944Monuments flaubertiensVéronique SamsonIn this article we reread Flaubert’s conclusions, starting from two observations: first, that they contain an excess of memory, due both to the characters and to the mementoes they collect; second, that these efforts to remember and preserve inevitably give way to oblivion. We interpret this combination of hypermnesia and amnesia as a problematic attempt to produce a memory of the text itself: in their final pages, Flaubert’s novels appear to be erecting their own monuments, while suggesting their inadequacy. Fiction, here, is at one and the same time the space in which a ‘memory crisis’ is unfolding and the very object of this crisis.https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/3944 |
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