The narrative of Silence, Oblivion and the Banality of Evil in Suite française by Irene Nemirovsky

Abstract

With this research about the great novel from Irène Némirovsky, titled Suite française (1942), the methodology of nar-rativity tries to show the complexity of the narrative function and, at the same time, the phenomenological and herme-neutic dimensions of silence and oblivi-on, the two previous and even contrary to writing manifestations, history and literature, and its implicit consequence, the banality of evil. The critical and phil-osophical metho¬dology is inspired in the narrativity theory by Paul Ricœur, whose general principles are displayed mainly in his magnum opus Temps et récit.