THE HOLOCAUST IN TATIANA DE ROSNAY’S SARAH’S KEY (2007)

O. Kobchinska
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The article offers an analysis of the Holocaust theme in the novel by a contemporary French writer Tatiana de Rosnay, whose writings incorporate patterns of mass literature as related to relevant concepts of modern culture. The novel Sarah’s Key (2007), the first literary text in English later translated in French, reveals a dark episode in the life of French society within the Nazi occupation in 1940-s, namely one of the biggest crimes committed by Nazis against Jewish people — the raid of Vel’ d’Iv (July 1942) that was witnessed and partially supported by a number of population in Paris. The paper provides an analysis of the events described in the novel as a significant sample of writings on Holocaust in the corpus of the modern French literature in the lights of trauma studies and the concept of transgenerational memory and based on historical approach, as well as comparative and narrative methodology. In particular, the circumstances and consequences of the raid are viewed from historical and cultural aspects, the comparative aspect is incorporated through the analysis of the concept of memory in the novel by de Rosnay and in Patrick Modiano’s writings, whereas fondamental metaphors and symbols in the novel are classified and interpreted in their relation to the theory of ‘lieux de mémoire’ by Pierre Nora. Such a complex approach in the research is to reveal several distinct interpretative levels of the Holocaust theme in the novel; it also helps to reinforce the writer’s dialogue with her predecessors and contemporaries in modern European literature against the background of the current war in Ukraine.
塔蒂亚娜·德·罗斯内的《莎拉的钥匙》中的大屠杀(2007)
本文分析了法国当代作家塔蒂亚娜·德·罗斯内小说中的大屠杀主题,她的作品将大众文学的模式与现代文化的相关概念结合起来。小说《萨拉的钥匙》(2007)是第一部后来被翻译成法语的英文文学作品,它揭示了1940年代纳粹占领期间法国社会生活中的一段黑暗插曲,即纳粹对犹太人犯下的最大罪行之一——1942年7月对Vel ' d ' iv的袭击,巴黎的许多人目睹并部分支持了这次袭击。本文在创伤研究和跨代记忆概念的基础上,以历史方法、比较方法和叙事方法为基础,对小说中描述的事件作为现代法国文学语料库中关于大屠杀的重要作品样本进行了分析。特别是,从历史和文化的角度来看待这次袭击的情况和后果,通过对德·罗斯内小说和帕特里克·莫迪亚诺作品中记忆概念的分析,将比较的角度纳入其中,而小说中的基本隐喻和象征则被分类并解释为与皮埃尔·诺拉的“中尉”理论的关系。这种复杂的研究方法揭示了小说中大屠杀主题的几个不同的解释层次;它也有助于加强作家与她的前辈和同时代的现代欧洲文学在当前乌克兰战争的背景下的对话。
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