Abstract
Abstract: Sébastien Japrisot’s novel Piège pour Cendrillon , written in 1962, just at the end of the Algerian War, revolves around the identity of a young woman who awakens with total amnesia and badly burned by a fire. I propose that through this novel of investigation, Japrisot is most interested in representing the paradoxes of a changing French national identity complicated by France’s wartime crimes and its ultimate relinquishment of l’Algérie française . It is through images of amnesia and mutilation that this novel speaks to the anxieties that the French soldiers and public experienced during the war.
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