The Traumatic Memory of the Great War 1914-1918 in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit


Tom Quinn (author)
Alliance Française, Dublin, May 2006

Paradoxes of silence
Memory: record the loss of memory
Céline speaks to forget, to be able to retain silence, to gain the right not to speak.

May 4th: Verdun, Mort Homme

Antiwar literature: Heller's Catch 22
Henri Miller, Jack Kerouac.


Conférences ToC
Marc Girod