Gragoatá (Dec 2008)
Websites and places of memory: “cybermigrances” by Régine Robin
Abstract
From Berlin-Chantiers, Régine Robin’s fictional writing puts apart the memorial romance of subaltern subjects in favor of a tough and lonely discourse. The narrative scenarios which Robin proposes in “Cybermigrances” and “L'immense fatigue des pierres” are much closer to one of Gibson's “Neuromancer” than the “Madeleine” of Proust. Should we regret the time of analog memory, important to Apollinaire, considering the preference for scientific-fictional timelessness of the digital world? Although this writer nourishes an explicit fascination with nuclei and ramifications of web, L'immense fatigue des pierres is not limited to such device. Régine Robin gives us a detailed reflection on the widespread catatonic of our contemporary spaces, evidenced by the numerous descriptions of Berlim in his most “representation” of Berlin is the tortured palimpsest. Considering the impossible mourning for the missing of the Shoah, it is necessary to “build” (in Thomas Bernhard’ words in “Corrections”), before the web screen that brings the subject to his loneliness, a site for the living ruins. --- Original in French.
