Timely Representations: Writing the Past in the First-Person Present Imperfect

IF 0.5 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY History & Memory Pub Date : 2016-03-16 DOI:10.2979/HISTMEMO.28.1.3
Nathan Bracher
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The present article draws from Henry Rousso’s La Dernière Catastrophe (2012) and Ivan Jablonka’s L’Histoire est une littérature contemporaine (2014) to analyze a series of novels published recently in France, dealing with the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies, and to explain what they reveal about contemporary society and current developments in historiography. The “present imperfect” refers not only to the first-person narrative mode prevalent in these works, but also to the “imperfection” stemming from the fact that (a) this past is not yet entirely over or complete (thus “imperfect” in the etymological sense) and (b) the narrator thus becomes irremediably involved in this history.
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本文从亨利·鲁索的《La derni大灾难》(2012)和伊凡·雅布隆卡的《L’histoire est une litlit 自然当代》(2014)中,分析了最近在法国出版的一系列小说,处理了20世纪最大的悲剧,并解释了它们揭示了当代社会和史学的当前发展。“现在的不完美”不仅指这些作品中流行的第一人称叙事模式,而且还指源于以下事实的“不完美”:(a)过去还没有完全结束或完成(因此词源学意义上的“不完美”);(b)叙述者因此不可救药地卷入了这段历史。
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