Le Roman Contemporain Libanais et la Guerre : Récit, Histoire, Mémoire

Abstract

As one of the major tendencies of post-war novelistic production, the “Lebanese war novel”consists of staging individual stories in relation to the collective events, and in order to achieve this mobilizing paradigms of narrative and memory. How does History, as material of writing, become the location of a historiography of war? This article seeks to answer these questions by examining texts by novelists of different generations who write in different languages, through questioning their narrative formulation, then the issues of identity and aesthetics stakes around this corpus is examined.