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Under the wings of the windmill : a network in post-Shoah and post-colonial literary milieux
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Abstract
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| In André Schwarz-Bart’s posthumous novel, Adieu Bogota (2017), three strong ‘cords’ tie his unfinished, and imperfect, novel to three authors whom he met at the Moulin d’Andé (Eure, France). First of all, there is Georges Perec’s overwhelming impact, through echoes in the choice of [sub-]title[s], the impossibility of mourning, and stitching ‘remembrances’ into a coherent text. Second, there is the Colombian refugee, Arnoldo Palacios, whose horrendous story about the 1948 events remembered as La Violencia left a deep imprint on Schwarz-Bart’s imagination. And third, there is Maurice Pons, the author of the cult novel, Les Saisons (1965), whose plot and characters owe a great debt to Schwarz-Bart’s novel, The Last of the Just (Le Dernier des Justes, 1959). In two directions and with different ‘reciprocities’, satellites of loss circle around André Schwarz-Bart (1928-2006) and his wife and co-author, Simone Schwarz-Bart (1938-). This article deals predominantly with a decentred history of the intellectual post-Shoah and post-colonial issues around the world after World War Two. I elaborate particularly on Perec and Palacios, and less on Pons, who bridged all those artists, philosophers, anticolonial thinkers, and Shoah survivors who spent time together at the Moulin. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Australian journal of Jewish studies
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Publication
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2023
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1037-0838
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36
(2023)
, p. 4-30
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