Name: BRUNO JESUS BIANCHI
Publication date: 25/05/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER | Advisor * |
| PAULO MUNIZ DA SILVA | External Examiner * |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: ABSTRACT
The relations between history and literature have been strongly polemized from a broad
spectrum of contemporary productions which attest to the figurations of historical
elements within avowedly fictional narratives. Thus this research aims to promote the
debate around some ethical implications enhanced in the works Diary of the fall (2011),
by Michel Laub, and Liquidation (2003), by Imre Kertész, considering the articulation
that is established in both narratives between fiction, the incorporation of
autobiographical elements and memory of the Holocaust. Taking into account the gradual
death of the last survivors of the Holocaust and the verification of the use of historical
data in contemporary fiction, will be investigated the ways in which the writing of oneself,
far from relativizing the barbarity in benefit of a narcissistic celebration of the author it
can contribute to the maintenance of the memory of catastrophes allied, simultaneously
to the gesture of remembrance of traumatic events in collective history from the point of
view of the vanquished, advocated by Walter Benjamin in the Theses on the Philosophy
of History (1940), and the Derridean task of rethinking politics, considering the
understanding of the other as someone radically other than myself and the need to admit
an utmost responsibility with the survival. The dialogues will be constructed from the
theoretical subsidies of some thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin,
Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, among others.
Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian Narrative. Memory. Holocaust.
