L’influence du genre à la transmission de la mémoire : Cas de Dora Bruder de Patrick Modiano

Abstract

<p class="Abstract">Such cultural experiences have a possibility to be embedded
 in a memory of one generation. But there are mostly in form of traumatic
 experiences. And then, we learn that these memories could be transferred onto
 their children, or we could say it as “post generation”. In the novel <i>Dora Bruder</i>, such things happen when the
 author, Patrick Modiano, plays his attribute in composing genres to arrange and
 transfer his message. The story mainly concerns as the narrator try to find a
 missing girl named Dora Bruder. She was gone in 1941, or in the moment when
 Nazi was occupying France. This research aims to discover the relationship
 between the role of genre on emerging the message, particularly the traumatic
 ones by using the concept of genre and postmemory. From the analysis we
 conclude that Modiano use genres to transfer his message traumatic. It exists
 in form of the impression of absence. From the sensation of absence, he
 continues to transmit consecutively another impression of hollow, doubt, and
 also hope. For transferring his message and memory, Modiano mixes real
 documents and his fiction. He manifest them by constructing a story of another
 person and narrating it from the first-person point of view. He uses this
 technique to identify himself, because the “shared idea” of one’s could be
 related with another’s.</p>