%0 Journal Article %T De l¡¯h¨¦ritier au r¨¦pondant %A Florence Traisnel %J Temps Z¨¦ro : Revue d'¨¦tude des ¨¦critures Contemporaines %D 2012 %I Codicille ?diteur %X La saga des P¨¦niel met en sc¨¨ne des personnages prisonniers d¡¯un pass¨¦ douloureux h¨¦rit¨¦ de leurs anc¨ºtres : c¡¯est que la malignit¨¦ du mal consiste ¨¤ parasiter la transmission. Seule la r¨¦v¨¦lation de la porosit¨¦ humaine permet aux personnages d¡¯¨¦chapper ¨¤ cette logique infernale pour convertir leur passivit¨¦ de l¨¦gataire en responsabilit¨¦ de r¨¦pondant due ¨¤ autrui et ¨¤ un Dieu qui s¡¯est d¨¦pouill¨¦ de ses forces et de son Verbe pour cr¨¦er le monde. C¡¯est le sens du silence de Dieu - vestige de ce geste de retrait divin - que Sylvie Germain cherche ¨¤ nous transmettre.The saga of the P¨¦niel family stages characters imprisoned by a distressful past inherited from their ancestors. Transmission, or what fails to be transmitted, is central to understanding the curse of the bloodline. Only the revelation of the porousness of human interaction makes it possible for the characters to escape from this infernal logic and to convert their passivity as legatees into the responsibility of guarantors responding to others as well as to God. It is the significance of the silence of God - vestige of the gesture of divine withdrawal - that Sylvie Germain seeks to transmit to her reader. %K Sylvie Germain %K Simone Weil %K anc¨ºtres %K responsabilit¨¦ %K Dieu %K ancestors %K responsability %K God %U http://tempszero.contemporain.info/document996