Abstract
In this paper two different forms of representation of the Irish « Troubles » in fiction are opposed. On the one hand, some novels, such as Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, or Deirdre Madden 's One by One in the Darkness, show how individual, private stories are determined by the course of collective history, and offer revised versions of the traditional pattern of the novel of education. On the other hand, Robert Me Liam Wilson's Eureka Street and Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man question the possibility for fiction to represent the war, when the reality of war has itself already receded behind all the discourses, the images, the codes, the slogans, etc, which now stand for the real.
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