Writing personal memoirs in the twentieth century.. revival after extinction

The book "Writing Personal Diaries in the Twentieth Century... Revival After Extinction," authored by John Louis Janal, and translated by Sonia Mahmoud Naja. In the introduction, the author poses the following question: What do we do with our memories? Today, we are victims of what accumulates and piles up in memory... what diaries contain and overflow beyond what we store in our minds. Artificial memory for our societies has created unprecedented capacities for storage, but at the same time, it has also created a problem of exploiting this stored amount. Here, we mention the memory established by social practices related to celebration, revival, and upbringing on remembrance, and the collective memory that forms an identity for associations, groups, and gatherings as a compensatory identity. According to the author, it must be reminded here that these types mentioned above require continuous organization and improvement, and in fear of forgetting, memory, which intersects with several sciences such as anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and psychology. The first chapter is titled "The Time of Remembrance" and includes chapters titled "End of Century Diaries," "History, Memory, and Future Generations," "Memory Trenches," "How Life is Lived." The second chapter is titled "The Time Worth Remembering," and includes chapters titled "The 1940 Turning Point," "Reviving Remembrance, Stirring Enthusiasm, and Restoring Honor," "Except Diaries," "Which Books Deserve to Be Written," "De Gaulle and the Treasure of the National Lady." The third chapter is titled "The Time of Memory" and includes chapters such as "The Pleasure of Power Speech," "A New Literary Genre for Autobiographical Texts," "In the Past More Than the Present," "The Creative Turning Point of History." The fourth chapter is titled "Memory" and includes chapters titled "Elements for a Sociology of Literary Types," "Self-Assertion," "Authorship Model," "Non-Historical Narrative Texts," and the conclusion titled "The Historian and the Amateur of Literature." The author, John-Louis Janal, has been a lecturer of modern literature at the University of Rouen since 2014. He specializes in the works of André Malraux and Simone de Beauvoir, in addition to biographies, the literary genre of diaries, and the history of the relationship between literature and cinema. He has written numerous articles and publications.