Islands of Memories – the poetics of trace in Theo of the Rivers by Jean Marc Turine –
The article focuses on the analysis of various aspects concerning the poetics of trace in the novel La Théo des Fleuves (2017) of the Belgian writer Jean Marc Turine. Starting from Paul Ricœur’s considerations regarding the mechanisms of rendering history and of creating memory in order to avoid forgetting, we will identify the main literary strategies that make possible the presentation of the unspeakable, taking into account that the novel covers the tragedies of the XXth century experienced by the Eastern European Gypsies. We will also discuss the intertextual character of the novel, the metaphor of the double as a recurrent element of constructing memories in a fragmentary way.
Keywords: Jean-Marc Turine, trace, remembering, forgetting, transmission, fiction.
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