Abstract

CONEJO, Yazmín. The Limits of Representation and Reflection Around the Fictionalization and Aestheticization of the Post-War Literature; The Case of the Survivors. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.40, pp.58-69. ISSN 0122-5197.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.mys20-40.lrrp.

The atrocious experience of living and surviving in a German concentration camp during World War II derived in a key issue as the representation of said experiences - which had to keep a non-literary perspective, away from mere testimony - started to appear, at least involuntarily at first, from an aesthetic way of the historical fact. Then, the problems around the limits of representation appear at the border between the historical and the literary when narrating. Thus, when we present the case of the experience in the camps through the narrative of Jorge semprún and Primo Levi, we aim to establish that the aporia of relativism between history and literature finds a way to exist and stay in a continuous time - and thus, transmissible - in their intersection.

Keywords : Holocaust; literature; memory; History; Primo Levi; Jorge semprún.

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