Raconter pour témoigner : la guerre et l’Occupation dans le champ littéraire belge au sortir du second conflit mondial

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Teklik Joanna, Raconter pour temoigner : la guerre et l'Occupation dans le champ litteraire belge au sortir du second confl it mondial (To narrate in order to give evidence : the war and the occupation in the Belgian literature of a direct Post-War period), Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, vol. XXXIX/1: 2012, pp. 59-67, ISBN 978-83-232-2410-5, ISSN 0137-2475, eISSN 2084-4158. Over the period directly following the Second World War, continuity and discontinuity were closely inter- woven in the Walloon literature. From one hand, esthetic models from Interwar period were still present and no novel concepts appeared in the writings of Walloon authors. From the other, however, a large num- ber of new State-run institutions were inaugurated. The hardships suffered during the war, seen mainly as an instance of disruption, are abundantly described in literary works, especially in testimonies. It is in this context that Arthur Haulot, Belgian poet and novelist, made prisoner and taken to Dachau, created his literary poignant output. His writings are marked by harsh experiences undergone in camps.