L’architecture du silence de la Shoah dans les fictions de Sylvie Germain

Abstract

Silences concerning the Shoah constitute a leitmotiv in Sylvie Germain’s narrative work. Motive and motivation intentionally emerge as a proteiform phenomenon from the writer-philosopher’s genius and from the historical and ideological substance, which imbue the novelist in every sec-tion of her literary creation. The pur-pose of this study is to interpret those silences in a set of selected novels where the Shoah takes up either a primary or a secondary role, but in any case a relevant one. To this end this study carries out a detailed study of the silence coming from the narrator’s origin, the victims, the murderers or God. Beyond the silence in humans and supreme beings, this study also investigates the spatial silence in that apocalyptic world.

Keywords

• Sylvie Germain
• Shoah
• Silence. Unsaid. Inenarrable. Innombrable
• silence
• unsaid
• Innombrable