Abstract: In 1945, Clara Malraux published her first full-length novel Portrait de Grisélidis . Written during the Occupation, this novel seems at first sight completely detached from the difficult context in which it was written: the action takes place in the French colonies of Indochina, at a time far removed from that of the Occupation of France and the reign of Nazism in Europe. This article aims to unearth the means Clara Malraux had at her disposal to introduce into her novel her views on the world that surrounds her at the time of writing, a world in which the right to speak up is no longer guaranteed for a Jewish woman writer of French-German origin such as herself, and in which surviving becomes an ever more pressing, if not uncertain, preoccupation.
R. Peeters (Wed,) studied this question.