La mémoire en décalage. L’identité en jeu. Lettres belges au lendemain de la guerre

Abstract

The memorial landscape of the Belgian literary field at the end of World War II reveals some interesting discrepancies. Once the war was over, we see stories begin to appear that evoked “the other war”, the First World War, as if the present had been relegated to the background. The authors’ motivations, sometimes political, sometimes personal, invite us to wonder about the mechanisms that underlie this shift, which stems from a significant term in the French-speaking literature of Belgium where, in one way or another, identity is at stake.