El escrito aborda el problema del silencio en un doble sentido. Por un lado, como depotenciador y destructor de la vida humana; por otro lado, se reflexiona sobre su incidencia en el crecimiento del poder de la vida. Se apela a los escritos testimoniales de Primo Levi sobre su encierro en los campos de concentración nazi, pues constituyen un soport...
Resumo A narrativa testemunhal convoca o leitor de maneira peculiar, pois sua responsabilidade de escuta (Jeanne Marie Gagnebin) o obriga a se posicionar, através de uma leitura profunda, dentro de uma witnesscommunity (Lina Insana) que garante a transmissão da narração. E como o leitor, o tradutor. Levando em conta aspectos narrativos e estilístic...
The challenge to anthropocentrism is at the core of critical animal studies, that draws from and contributes to the reflections of posthumanistic thought. By turning their attention from what are usually considered criteria to separate and place in a hierarchy human and nonhuman animals (most prominently, reason and language) to what they have in c...
The testimony literature involves the reader in a peculiar way, because his responsibility of listening (Jeanne Marie Gagnebin) forces him to position himself, through a deep reading, within a witness-community (Lina Insana) that guarantees the transmission of the narration. As the reader, the translator too. Taking into account narrative and styli...
Amis has always found the question of the Holocaust’s exceptionalism fascinating and returns to the subject in “The Zone of Interest”. After analysing how the enormity of the Holocaust conditions literary representation and Amis’s own approach to it, this article focuses on one of the main voices of the novel, Szmul, the leader of the Sonderkommand...
In The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi presents for the first time the « grey zone » concept, that is to say the space of privileges and struggles for power through ambiguous relations of complicity and responsibility between prisoners and guardians, in the absolutely totalitarian and absurde frame of the camp. Jorge, Gérard : the autobiographica...
This work aims at studying the relationship that exists among modernity, rationalization and violence in the book Is this a man?, by Primo Levi. This author is an Italian Jewish, the central character of his book, which consists in the testimony of what he lived in Auschwitz, one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps. In the book, the author recr...
This work aims at studying the relationship that exists among modernity, rationalization and violence in the book Is this a man?, by Primo Levi. This author is an Italian Jewish, the central character of his book, which consists in the testimony of what he lived in Auschwitz, one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps. In the book, the author recr...
This work aims at studying the relationship that exists among modernity, rationalization and violence in the book Is this a man?, by Primo Levi. This author is an Italian Jewish, the central character of his book, which consists in the testimony of what he lived in Auschwitz, one of the biggest Nazi concentration camps. In the book, the author recr...
This article aims at working with the problem of the narrative impossibility. This matter can be noticed in two authors, namely, Clarice Lispector and Primo Levi. However, this impossibility to narrate is noticed in different and particular ways in these authors. Clarice wants to capture the moment and fix it, but she notices that it is not possibl...
