ROLLING THE WRECKAGE: THE EMPTINESS OF THE TRANSMISSIBLE EXPERIENCE, THE MISMATCH WITH THE REAL AND THE RAISE OF HORROR

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  • FABRÍCIO PAIVA ARAÚJO Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

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https://doi.org/10.1344/AFLC2016.6.8

Abstract

The contribution here proposed addresses relevant issues to explain the relationship between memory and testimony, which is concerned with its factual and subjective truths, that is, the discourse of the real in confrontation with the discourse resulted from the human desires and imagination. Consequently, it investigates the unutterable horror experienced by the victim confined in Auschwitz. The objective is to understand how the experience of horror is represented in the work, If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi, Italian Jew, chemist, writer and survivor of the extermination camp in Auschwitz.

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PAIVA ARAÚJO, F. (2017). ROLLING THE WRECKAGE: THE EMPTINESS OF THE TRANSMISSIBLE EXPERIENCE, THE MISMATCH WITH THE REAL AND THE RAISE OF HORROR. Anuari De Filologia. Literatures Contemporànies, (6), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1344/AFLC2016.6.8

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No. 6 (2016): Anuari de Filologia. Literatures Contemporànies

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Testimony, trauma and war in 20th-century literature

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