Révolution, trauma et narration: Les Proscrits de Charles Nodier

Abstract

Charles Nodier (1780-1844) is the author of the post-revolutionary generation who embodied the sense of trauma, pain, and remembrance. In his first novel, Les Proscrits, an anonymous character embodies the sense of this pain and becomes the first of the characters who, through writing, can express the suffering of a difficult and painful phase of French history marked by glorious aspects and moments of extreme suffering and tension. The paper intends to analyse the character, the forerunner of men suffering because of the political condition, to investigate the expressions of pain and trauma, dwelling, as well, on the psychological aspects that condition such language. The main thread will be the memory between denial and sense of experience that becomes suffering and anonymity.