La perspective «inversée»: l’exclusion sous l’Occupation nazie

Abstract

The study proposes to examine the positioning of the body – persecuted, voiceless – in relation to inhabitable space, under extreme historical circumstances, in the work of two French- speaking authors: Max Jacob – a French poet, writer and painter, who died on 5 March 1944 in the Drancy camp – and Françoise Frenkel – a librarian in Hitler’s Germany, who later became a clandestine in Vichy France and who wrote mostly in French. Through their writing, we would like to question how the spatial arrangements of Nazi persecution are revealed or constituted, in particular at the moment when private (subject to spoliations or roundups) and public spaces (with forbidden access to parks, schools, etc. for certain human ‘categories’) undergo a radical rearrangement.