The Role of Fictional Writings in the Construction of Identity

The lived situation and the transmitted history find their firmness and meaning through their narration. According to this point of view, the historical narrative, as a translator of experiences and realities, contains a multidimensional representation of an identity and a memory. The novel finds, here, an activity of transmission of the past. As a result, it becomes memory. The effect of memory is certainly capital in this process of the diffusion of culture, customs and history. This process of identity construction is never deprived of historicity. Memory and history are closely linked since they form the various aspects of collective identity.