Pour une didactique de la cruauté. Le savoir-faire de l'écriture chez Agota Kristof
ISSN: 1139-9368, 1989-8193
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 28
Pages: 141-156
Type: Article
More publications in: Thélème: Revista complutense de estudios franceses
Abstract
Agota Kristof was born in Hungary, in 1935 but was forced to abandon her country for political reasons. She settled in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1956 where she became a writer. In 1986 she published The Notebook, a little masterpiece of contemporary literature in French, translated into more than 30 languages. The great success of the book encouraged her to turn into the first toma of a trilogy completed by two other volumens, The Proof (1989) and The Third Ly (1991). The aim of this article is to analyze the textual mechanisms of the enunciation of cruelty in The Notebook.