Media and Literary Memory

We are in fact poised in between the hypothesis of the deprivation or of the end of memory and time, and the hypothesis of a breathtaking creative power that makes us lords and masters of every history. And if saying “history” means memory and collective identity, it is obvious that our “giving back a sense” to the past is interlaced with the genesis of subjectivities that are the holders of memory, or, better, their producers. Besides, if we want to ask what function had the historical memory within the modern novel, looking for answers of a general order or, in other words, theories, we ought to look for them in the field of media hybridization.