Richard Millet’s Lebanon : between memory and imagination
This thesis focuses on the representation of Lebanon in the work of Richard Millet, through two different and complementary processes: memory and imagination. Noting that the work of this writer has been closely linked to personal experience, we are working on a literary material combining the real and the fictional, the writing itself and the novel. To faithfully accompany the experience of the subject, it is first issue of the Lebanese space in a perspective that goes beyond description to achieve the interactions between the individual and his environment. Also discussed is the relationship between writing and space, to the extent that it contributes to the development of the narrative. The subject and space, and most of the elements that make up the work of Millet, are subject to a common order, the Time. The haunting return of the past, especially of Lebanese children, causes a movement of general rehashing. All these elements contribute to a harmonious project, that of a search for identity that share a personal experience to achieve universal dimension.