Grammar of Bodies: A Poetics of the Memory of Wars by Mathieu Riboulet. Franco-German Conflicts and Pink Triangles in The Works of Mercy

Jérémy LEVASSEUR LE GALL

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Grammar of Bodies: A Poetics of the Memory of Wars by Mathieu Riboulet. Franco-German Conflicts and Pink Triangles in The Works of Mercy

Authors:

Jérémy LEVASSEUR LE GALL

Publisher:

Hicham BELHAJ

Journal:

Complexus Vol.1 Issue 5, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2025

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001843893

pISSN:

2665-735X

Abstract:

 This paper explores how Mathieu Riboulet constructs a poetics of the body in order to exhume a marginalized — even absent — memory from official history. Les Œuvres de miséricorde weaves together historical investigation, sexual experience, and a quest for selfhood, making physical union with a German man a means of accessing a transgenerational memory of past violence, through a symbolic rewriting of history. The work problematizes the absence of transmission of a homosexual memory of the Franco-German wars, particularly through the erased figure of the Pink Triangles, with whom the narrator identifies. The body becomes the principal medium of a singular act of remembrance — a living archive of a history that has not been spoken or passed down.

Article Details

Grammar of Bodies: A Poetics of the Memory of Wars by Mathieu Riboulet. Franco-German Conflicts and Pink Triangles in The Works of Mercy

Authors: Jérémy LEVASSEUR LE GALL

Publisher: Hicham BELHAJ

Journal: Complexus Vol.1 Issue 5, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 7/2025

Document Language: French

Document ID (Org No.): 2001843893

pISSN: 2665-735X

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Authors:

Jérémy LEVASSEUR LE GALL

Publisher:

Hicham BELHAJ

Journal:

Complexus Vol.1 Issue 5, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2025

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001843893

pISSN:

2665-735X