Websites and places of memory: “cybermigrances” by Régine Robin

Authors

  • Simon Harel Université du Québec à Montréal, Canadá

Keywords:

Literature. memory. Ruins. Cyberspace. Urban spaces. Virtual Palimpsest.

Abstract

From Berlin-Chantiers, Régine Robin’s fictional writing puts apart the memorial romance of subaltern subjects in favor of a tough and lonely discourse. The narrative scenarios which Robin proposes in “Cybermigrances” and “L'immense fatigue des pierres” are much closer to one of Gibson's “Neuromancer” than the “Madeleine” of Proust. Should we regret the time of analog memory, important to Apollinaire, considering the preference for scientific-fictional timelessness of the digital world? Although this writer nourishes an explicit fascination with nuclei and ramifications of web, L'immense fatigue des pierres is not limited to such device. Régine Robin gives us a detailed reflection on the widespread catatonic of our contemporary spaces, evidenced by the numerous descriptions of Berlim in his most “representation” of Berlin is the tortured palimpsest. Considering the impossible mourning for the missing of the Shoah, it is necessary to “build” (in Thomas Bernhard’ words in “Corrections”), before the web screen that brings the subject to his loneliness, a site for the living ruins.

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Original in French.

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Author Biography

Simon Harel, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canadá

É professor titular do Departamento de Estudos Literários da Université du Québec à Montréal e diretor do CELAT na UQAM. Entre seus objetos de pesquisa ressaltam-se: o imaginário dos lugares habitados, a escrita migrante no Quebec e as formas atuais da narrativa de si. Publicou cerca de vinte monografias e obras coletivas em várias editoras. Dentre suas publicações, as mais recentes são: Espaces en perdition I. Les lieux précaires de la vie quotidienne, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007; Espaces en perdition 2. Humanités jetables, Presses de l’Université Laval, no prelo; Quel Autre? L’altérité en question (com Pierre Ouellet), VLB, 2007; Braconnages identitaires. Un Québec palimpseste, VLB, 2006; Les passages obligés de l’écriture migrante, XYZ, 2005, Lieux propices (org. com Adelaide Russo), Presses de l’Université Laval, 2005. Seus trabalhos atuais abordam a escrita da maldade nas obras de V.S. Naipaul e Thomas Bernhard, as formas contemporâneas da mobilidade cultural, o estatuto da confiança na era do descrédito.

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Published

2008-12-30

How to Cite

Harel, S. (2008). Websites and places of memory: “cybermigrances” by Régine Robin. Gragoatá, 13(25). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33139

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 25 (2008): Cross-disciplinarity

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