Oblivion game / Forgetfulness Woman the hiding of forgetfulness, Memory gaps
Abstract
In the comparative study of two novels, Oblivion game (Lu´bat al-nisyán) and Forgetfulness Wom-an (Imra´at al-nisyán), Memory – this peg that consolidates Past – is a weak score whereas oblivion is dripping.
The author, Mohammed Berrada, contemplating how to narrate, makes slide by Memory – and by oblivion – in an interesting quest for narrative voice, trough the mazes of writing, which lays essential-ly on the Roland Barthes definition of omniscient narration, described like a superior consciousness, both internal and external to diegesis, allowing the free movement of the narrators in time and space, during a turbulent period of Moroccan last century. Meanwhile F. B., Woman, unnamed and with mul-tiple identities, appears however as unique and singular.
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