Le travail de mémoire fictionnelle dans Le Mirador d'Élisabeth Gille.

Élisabeth Gille, the youngest daughter of novelist Irène Némirovsky, was only five years old when her mother was deported to Auschwitz, where she died. Although Gille hardly remembered anything about her mother, she later wrote Le Mirador : mémoires rêvés, a "dreamed biography" of her, relying on surviving documents, the memories of friends and family, and her own imagination. In this fictional memoir written from her mother's point of view, Némirovsky's story is intertwined with glimpses of Gille's own childhood. Part biography, part autobiography and part fiction, Le Mirador is an attempt to come to terms with the pain and suffering associated with a mother's untimely disappearance, as well as with the void and lack of memory that it has created. Ultimately, this form of fictional memory practised by Gille proves to be the only narrative strategy that allows the survivor to express and deal with an unspeakable past that cannot be remembered, and yet is at the same time unforgettable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]