Abstract

SANCHEZ GOMEZ, Gonzalo. Testimony, Justice, and Memory. Preliminary Reflections on a Current Trilogy. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2018, n.53, pp.19-47. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n53a02.

The testimony in the memory occurs in a tense relationship that is only possible when the event, the narrator and the listener are in tune, that is, they remain in a certain balance. Only that balance can produce its purpose: to manifest and make known to someone the way in which the event occurred and those it affected. Each time that this triadic relationship, which keeps the testimony in motion, is broken, the testimony becomes unspeakable, the experience is assumed to be impossible, the subject becomes problematic and the audience deaf, that is, distrustful. However, in the different scenarios in which the testimony is expressed —history, justice or literature—, that balance is always broken. Moreover, that lack of balance constitutes it as such in order to fulfill the purpose for which has been summoned by each of these disciplines.

Keywords : Testimony; Witness; Narration; History; Justice; Literature; Memory.

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