The fall of Communism and the acceleration of history in Daniele Sallenave's Les 'Trois minutes du diable'

Authors
Thibault, B
Citation
B. Thibault, The fall of Communism and the acceleration of history in Daniele Sallenave's Les 'Trois minutes du diable', SYMPOSIUM, 54(2), 2000, pp. 113-125
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Literature
Journal title
SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES
ISSN journal
00397709 → ACNP
Volume
54
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
113 - 125
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-7709(200022)54:2<113:TFOCAT>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Sallenave's novel focuses on the fall of communism in Europe in the 1990s a nd its impact on ordinary people, represented by the main characters: Zoria in Russia, Isabelle and Anna in France. Drawing from Hannah Arendt and Pie rre Nora, this study discusses "the acceleration of history" and the distin ction made by the novelist between modernity and progress, history and memo ry, historical time and existential time.