The story of displaced memory. Grandes vacances en Angleterre by Évelyne Pollet ; L’histoire d’une mémoire décalée. Grandes Vacances en Angleterre d’Évelyne Pollet

Today’s studies on memory encourage multidirectional memory, which assumes the transdisciplinary perspective and permits new understanding of texts which address traumatic events of the previous century. This is so in the case of Evelyne Pollet (1905-2005). Her largely autobiographical novel Grandes vacances en Angleterre (1945) is a record of a Belgian refugee family’s stay in Great Britain during World War One. This would not be particularly interesting if it had not been for the fact that the author does it near the end of the second global conflict. Her return to the events of 1914 1918 is... Mehr ...