Maurice Sachs, Larceny and Problematic Memory

Authors

  • Walter Romero Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Keywords:

Turncoat, Chameleonic, Abjection, Problematic Self

Abstract

This article is proposed as a profile and question about biographemes and their literary imbrication in the work and figure of Maurice Sachs (1906-1945), a completely controversial writer, whose position in the domain of French literature during the Occupation and in the post-war period, continues to have a problematic status. Sachs, author of memoirs and camouflaged autobiographies, who disguises facts and characters while giving us vivid portraits of his turbulent times, is, in himself, a prototype of the chameleon-like identities that under an occupied Paris served the Nazi enemy in abominable collusions and abjections that, almost unequivocally, the author reflects in his varied and unclassifiable work that surpasses genres. As a question, this critical-biographical sketch aims to enable the unknowns of a cursed writer and his problematic self.

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Author Biography

Walter Romero, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Doctor en Letras por la UBA. Fue Presidente de la AALFF (Asociación Argentina de Literatura Francesa y Francófona) entre 2018- 2023. Es Profesor Adjunto Regular a cargo de la cátedra de Literatura Francesa en la FFYL de la UBA, donde se desempeña desde 1997. Es director del Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades (CNBA/UBA). Su último libro es Formas de leer a Proust. Una introducción a En busca del tiempo perdido (2022). Ha publicado artículos en medios nacionales e internacionales. Ha obtenido las Palmas Académicas en grado de chevalier, otorgado por la República de Francia.

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Published

2024-12-09

How to Cite

Romero, W. (2024). Maurice Sachs, Larceny and Problematic Memory. Language and Literature Magazine, (42), 85–92. Retrieved from http://170.210.83.53/index.php/letras/article/view/5651