INTERPRETATIONS OF PAST IN LITERATURE : LA TEMPÊTE DES HEURES BY ANNE CUNEO AND L’ITALIENNE BY SYLVIANE ROCHE AND MARIE-ROSE DE DONNO

Abstract

In this work, my purpose is to analyse the interpretation of the past as presented in Anne Cuneo’s historic novel La Tempête des heures and in Sylviane Roche’s & Marie-Rose De Donno’s life story L’Italienne, Histoire d’une vie. The interpreted events took place in Swiss and Italy during and after World War II. In this research I have relied on Tzvetan Todorov’s work Les abus de la mémoire and Paul Ricoeur’s work La mémoire, l’histoire et l’oubli.