ABSTRACT
If studies on memory occupy a major place in current scientific research (cognitive neurosciences, artificial intelligence, neuro-technologies…), the development of an art of memory, capable of increasing the powers of man, by opposing to the disorder of death the good order of the living, already interested poets and intellectuals of classical antiquity. In Souvenirs dormants, Patrick Modiano (Nobel Prize for Literature 2014) seems to draw inspiration from some famous mnemonists evoked elsewhere by Jacques Roubaud, to continue to chisel a fine and powerful art of memory, constantly consolidated throughout his work. Through the maze of places and images from the hazy memory of the narrator, it is also a dark page of history that is still revealed in its most elusive aspects.
KEYWORDS:
Art of memory; Patrick Modiano; Souvenirs dormants