Dans quelle langue écrire des mémoires dès lors qu'il n'y a pas de langue maternelle autorisée? Comment dire un «je me rappelle» qui vaille quand il faut inventer et sa langue et son je, les inventer en même temps, par-delà même ce déferlement d'amnésie qu'a déchaîné le double interdit?

Non è detto che Kublai Kan creda a tutto quel che dice Marco Polo quando gli descrive le città visitate.

because there was a literature in French a good hundred and fifty years before there was one in Italian, for a long time, French literature was vernacular literature. To adopt it was not to steal it, nor to be dominated by it, but to use it as if it were one's own. French was a literary (and performative) instrument, not a birthright.