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Le survivant de la Shoah face au texte de fiction: un écran protecteur ou un écran projecteur? L’exemple d’Anna Langfus

Through the example of Anna Langfus, this article reflects on the trajectories of several Holocaust survivors (including Primo Levi, Jorge Semprun and Sarah Kofman) who adopted different strategies (silence, forgetting, writing) to deal with their traumatic past. It also explores the notion of ‘écriture écran’ (literature as a screen) often used loosely by many writers, critics, and psychoanalysts. It rejects the idea that a novel is simply a screen which protects the writer and, on the contrary, argues that fiction allows writers to go further in the exploration of their unconscious and can therefore be more harmful than autobiographical writings.