Abstract
This chapter focuses on the recurrences of lists and inventories as a means of communication across time and space in novels by Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre and Kaouther Adimi. Throughout Modiano’s oeuvre, narrators are obsessively compiling lists as a way to keep their search for an elusive past going, yet the existence of police files also serves as a reminder of the more sinister side of inventories. In Lydie Salvayre’s La Compagnie des spectres [The Company of Ghosts] (1997), the inventory can be understood as a way to visually mark the presence of an absent loved one. In Nos Richesses [Our Riches] (2017), Adimi’s treatment of the inventory considers what is lost when one does not pay attention to traces of the past and shows the necessity of readerly investment in making sense of lists.
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