In Chloé Delaume’s oeuvre, oblivion is the complement of memory. Her works reconfigure personal and collective amnesia and recollection in textual devices that recover and hybridize different traditions, approaches and imaginaries. The aim of this article is to analyze some texts that show the precarious balance between reintegration and erasure through the fictionalization of various attitudes toward traumatic or unacceptable memories. Variations on the figures of self-cannibalism ("Certainement pas"), patchwork ("Pauvre folle") and witch trials ("Les sorcières de la République") illustrate a non-binary attitude where the affirmation of singularity is achieved through the action of different forms of oblivion.
Lézardes mémorielles dans la fiction delaumienne
Marika Piva
2026
Abstract
In Chloé Delaume’s oeuvre, oblivion is the complement of memory. Her works reconfigure personal and collective amnesia and recollection in textual devices that recover and hybridize different traditions, approaches and imaginaries. The aim of this article is to analyze some texts that show the precarious balance between reintegration and erasure through the fictionalization of various attitudes toward traumatic or unacceptable memories. Variations on the figures of self-cannibalism ("Certainement pas"), patchwork ("Pauvre folle") and witch trials ("Les sorcières de la République") illustrate a non-binary attitude where the affirmation of singularity is achieved through the action of different forms of oblivion.
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