Georges Thinès, Le Tramway des officiers – le jeu du miroir et de la mémoire

Can contemporary literature cocreate History? Can it interpret it through its involvement? The present article offers a discussion on the extent to which Le Tramway des officiers is a historical novel; does is use historical memory and if so, how does it do it? This labyrinthine novel with its complicated structure takes place in a specific time of the German occupation, in an unnamed city, and its characters are ambiguously interpreted. These factors seem to suggest that the objective interpretation of history is impossible.