Name: SILÉYR DOS SANTOS RIBEIRO

Publication date: 18/04/2022
Advisor:

Name	Role
FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER	Advisor *
PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA DUTRA	Internal Alternate *
ROBSON LOUREIRO	Internal Examiner *
WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO	Internal Examiner *
WOLMYR AIMBERÊ ALCANTARA FILHO	External Alternate *

Summary: ABSTRACTA significant part of contemporary Brazilian literary production invests in the fictionalization of traumatic historical events (genocides, military dictatorships, etc.) in a critical perspective, intervening in the debate on the thematic clipping. From this perspective, the present research investigates how Michel Laub`s Diary of fall (2011) intertwines the memory of a collective historical trauma – the Holocaust – with the identity construction of the fictional subject. Told in the first person, the Laub’s novel presents a conflict between three generations marked by trauma: the grandfather, a survivor of Auschwitz; the narrator’s father who deals with his father’s suicide at the age of fourteen and with the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s at sixty; and the narrator, who has problems – alcoholism and aggression – in his adult life related to intergenerational trauma and the fall of his colleague João, at the age of thirteen. The extreme barbarism of the last century requires not only a new representational model, but also an ethical positioning of the subject who takes it up again through the art. Therefore, we discuss how Laub (2011) elaborates a literary form compatible with the Shoah theme – “Catastrophe” in Hebrew –, in the direction pointed out by Theodor W. Adorno (2003), of an isomorphy between content and form. We are interested in investigating the way in which Laub`s work (2011) incorporates the representational challenges imposed on art and tries to capture barbarism through its fragmentary form and repetition as a mechanism for the manifestation of trauma.Keywords: Michel Laub. Diary of the Fall. Auschwitz. Memory. Judaism. Fragmentary form.

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