L’exile comme expérience de la séparation dans le discours littéraire sur l’enfance (Nabokov et Sarraute)

Abstract

Writing exile recreates the experience of separation from the family or his country with sorrow it implies, while commemorating a lost world that thankfully can be retrieved by the memory. The childhood story implements indeed a self-reconstruction process, like a puzzle, which mobilizes different discursive means in the language rituals specific to each writer. Even fragmented, with no precise linearity or devoid of chronology, the childhood story is a means of escape from the prison that is the time especially for the writer in exile in a foreign country, like Nabokov and Sarraute, but also an opportunity to rebuild the original identity after the cultural shock of coming into contact with a foreign culture to the fragile age of childhood. The recovery of this identity is possible through research and the faithful transcription of memory.

Keywords

• exile
• Nabokov
• Sarraute
• speeches
• identity
• self-reconstruction
• melancholy
• grief
• remembrance
• childhood story