WRITING AS A MEAN TO REHABILITATE THE TRAUMATIZED SELF  IN  VIVRE VITE BY BRIGITTE GIRAUD

Nadia Naboulsi Iskandarani

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WRITING AS A MEAN TO REHABILITATE THE TRAUMATIZED SELF IN VIVRE VITE BY BRIGITTE GIRAUD

Authors:

Nadia Naboulsi Iskandarani

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951111

pISSN:

2789-8296

Keywords:

Accident – Drama – fatality – predestination – therapy – Suffering – Traumatized memory

Abstract:

 In her novel Vivre vite, Brigitte Giraud writes the story of a disaster that obsesses her: on June 22, 1999; her companion Claude died in a motorcycle accident in Lyon. This vehicle, a powerful and dangerous Honda, was prohibited on Japanese territory and was reserved for export to Europe. It did not belong to Claude, but to the writer's brother. She was only able to return to the drama that inhabited her in 2022, that is to say twenty-three years after Claude's death. The reader cannot help but wonder about this long silence and why this return to the minutiae of this accident. Perhaps she wanted to believe that this tragic accident could have been avoided, which is why she undertakes a final investigation, in “a tale in reverse”, by analyzing the various assumptions or possibilities that could arise to prevent the catastrophe. She multiplies the “if” to show all that is fortuitous in life and accidental in the drama. The verb tenses used reveal a form of fatality or destiny. They underline the absence of real choice and assert the predestination of events. To understand Giraud's attitude to return to drama after a silent suffering of twenty years, we will analyze: - The traumatized memory, stunned by the tragic memory - The narrative processes used to understand what led to the accident; she comes back to it with a “litany of ifs”: is it chance, fate or a simple coincidence? Hence the importance of verb tenses in “the countdown story”- The therapy through writing.

Article Details

WRITING AS A MEAN TO REHABILITATE THE TRAUMATIZED SELF IN VIVRE VITE BY BRIGITTE GIRAUD

Authors: Nadia Naboulsi Iskandarani

Publisher: Beirut Arab University Press

Journal: BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2023

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001951111

pISSN: 2789-8296

Accident – Drama – fatality – predestination – therapy – Suffering – Traumatized memory

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Authors:

Nadia Naboulsi Iskandarani

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951111

pISSN:

2789-8296