Studying the way a writer is represented in his relationship to history allows us to analyse the stakes of a return of history within fiction, along with an author’s referential will, without witnessing any coming back of a demiurgic author or of a purely referential literature. The question, then, is to find out how Imre Kertész and Antonio Tabucchi combine fictionalization of history with fictionalization of the writer by emphasizing the links between literature and politics and by relying upon the reader’s role in the elaboration of the meaning, in order to give rise to a responsibility of writers for oblique representation and testimony. In all the narrations, the disasters of the XXth century are recurrent in a ghostly manner and then the definition of a poetics of disquiet constitutes the pivot between the reader’s responsibility and the authors’ in order to lead to responsible literature.
