The silence, a Cry that Echoes in Vivianne Forrester’s Writing

Abstract

The Holocaust Literature is tied to Si-lence from its beginning as the writing to silence. Write about the Holocaust and relate the experiences lived in first person or transmit them to the coming genera-tions means leaving the silence which, for years, was the ideal refuge. This research focuses on the literary production of Vivi-ane Forrester. The different expressions of silence that characterize her writings are analyzed. Silence is the cry that underlies in the most profound of the human being that return from the concentration camps, as Lazarus from the dead. It is a silence that grows to a cry because Forrester’s writing, almost in parallel to the fragmen-tary writing of Blanchot, announces livre à venir, expressing the cry in silence without the ending of the word.