Abstract
In La Corde et Ies souris Malraux attempts to overcome human transience and mortality by memorializing the ephemeral through the artifice of writing. The rhetoric of the self-portrait takes the form of a historical narrative in which the relationship of history to memory as textual archive affords the Malrucian subject a "reprieve" by effacing the inherent status of contingency. The text thus becomes a veritable cultural mausoleum that sublates the implicit negation of death and allows the author to become more than a conscience without memory.
Keywords:
- Keyword: La Corde et Ies souris
- Keyword: Malraux
- Keyword: human transience
- Keyword: mortality
- Keyword: memorializing
- Keyword: ephemeral
- Keyword: self-portrait
- Keyword: Malrucian subject
- Keyword: contingency
- Keyword: death
- Keyword: author
How to Cite:
Kritzman, L. D., (1985) “History and His-Story in André Malraux's La Corde et les souris”, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1173
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