La représentation littéraire du trauma culturel : Un Juif pour l’exemple de Jacques Chessex

Abstract

Jacques Chessex’s Un Juif pour l'exemple not only challenges the representation of trauma, but also the dynamics of generic and discursive particularities ruling fables of traumatic events. The enunciative and generic approach chosen in this contribution supports the idea that the notion of fable is not linked to any specific genre: it has to do with a combination of fictional and factual genres instead, alternating various discursive modalities susceptible to ensure the narratibility of dismal stories anchored in collective memory. The present paper contends that the study of the literary staging of trauma is conducive to sociolectures which also make it possible to understand the author's posture—the author's self-presentation in the text as well as the author's existential relationship with his text.

Keywords

• socio(logical) reading
• genericity
• enunciative modalities
• storytelling of evil
• repairing