Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof

Starting with the study of The Notebook by Agota Kristof, this paper examines the way the state of war expels often brutally the child of its child's position, assigning him(her) a problematic place, particularly in the succession of generations. Not only witness but also often victim of the br...

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Main Author: Carine Trevisan
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Language:English
Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2006-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/952
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description Starting with the study of The Notebook by Agota Kristof, this paper examines the way the state of war expels often brutally the child of its child's position, assigning him(her) a problematic place, particularly in the succession of generations. Not only witness but also often victim of the brutality of the adults, the child can nevertheless “be identified with the attacker” and become a killer too. Giving fictitiously the word to children who make the test of the brutalisation of men’s and women’s behavior in the state of war, The Notebook, by the choice of an “ice-cold” writing – this book has been qualified of “exercise of cruelty” –, led to its extreme limit the representation of devastated childhood, so much so that it becomes disturbing: abolition of any faculty to dream, to imagine, anaesthesia of emotive life, destruction of anything that can make link with others, phenomena which produce insensitivity to death, received or given. However, this loss of humanity can be regarded as a technique – certainly mutilating – of survival.
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Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
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title Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
title_full Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
title_fullStr Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
title_full_unstemmed Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
title_short Les enfants de la guerre : Le Grand Cahier d’Agota Kristof
title_sort les enfants de la guerre le grand cahier d agota kristof
topic Europe
Agota Kristof
Le Grand Cahier
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