Abstract:

Through its indirect, experimental, and often surprising depictions, fiction approaches the gap between experience and survival and can shed light on the complexities of trauma. In this article, Annie Ernaux’s depictions of the narrativization process in her novel A Girl’s Story is used as a point of departure for reflections on how and under what circumstances it might be possible to find words for experiences that have neither been recognized by the person involved nor talked about before. Through close reading, and in dialogue with psychoanalytic theories on trauma, I discuss how we might understand the possibility of representing trauma symbolically and the different modes of such representation. The movement between an experiential and a more reflective mode is discussed as a feature of Ernaux’s narrative that might have enabled the integration of experiences into consciousness. I discuss how Ernaux’s literary project described as “making the personal universal” can be understood as a process aimed at constituting a reality that has been cut off from history: directed toward the possibility of establishing a present external, and hence more authentic, internal witness to past events.

摘要：

通过间接的、实验性的、常常令人惊讶的描述，小说拉近了经验与生存之间的差距，并揭示了创伤的复杂性。在这篇文章中，安妮·埃尔诺（Annie Ernaux）对她的小说《女孩的故事》中的叙事过程进行了描述被用作反思的出发点，思考如何以及在什么情况下可以找到有关既没有被相关人员认可也没有被谈论过的经历的词语。通过仔细阅读，并与关于创伤的精神分析理论对话，我讨论了我们如何理解象征性地表达创伤的可能性以及这种表达的不同模式。体验式和反思性模式之间的转变被认为是埃尔诺叙事的一个特征，它可能使经验能够融入意识。我讨论了埃尔诺的文学项目如何被描述为“使个人普遍化”可以被理解为一个旨在构建一个与历史隔绝的现实的过程：