Traces autour de la mémoire. Configuration et fonction de l’attente dans l’œuvre de Georges Perec
Résumé
For Georges Perec, restoring the complexity of the real by overcoming the crisis of language in the aftermath of the Second World War is the aim of a new literature that succeeds in describing its relationship with reality through a new form. Starting from the essay on Robert Antelme (Robert Antelme ou la vérité en littérature), Perec not only experiments with new narrative strategies, but also resumes and advances the autobiographical project that had abandoned several times. This paper will not only be underlining the importance of Antelme’s writing in defining the more mature Perec, but also demonstrate the function of Un Homme qui dort in Perec’s autobiographical project. It will reflect on the concept of waiting, understood in this novel as a prefiguration of future writing, the same writing that will allow Perec to access the memories of his past and that we will find again in W ou le souvenir d’enfance.