Open AccessLa literatura enfrentada a la total pérdida de humanidad en episodios del siglo XX
Author(s) -
María de las Nieves Ibáñez Ibáñez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
interpretatio. revista de hermenéutica/interpretatio. revista de hermenéutica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2683-1406
pISSN - 2448-864X
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.it.2020.5.2.0012
Subject(s) - humanity , trilogy , nazism , atonement , happening , humanities , order (exchange) , art , appeal , literature , philosophy , art history , performance art , law , theology , german , political science , linguistics , finance , economics
The first half of the 20th century has witnessed tragic episodes in Europe where the topic understood as humanity has being closed down. This article addresses the way literature, or the best of it —written by the survivors at the Nazi death camps, French camps, those who, broken and in front of everyone’s eyes, experienced the progress of evil, like Victor Klemperer— in the light of the difficulty to depict the horror and the decline of the human being, takes charge of genres close to the real —the report or the chronicle, the diary, the essay— and it opposes to horror the necessity of stating an unrealistic human experience in order to, ultimately, prevent it from happening again. As examples we can mention: Primo Levy in Auschwitz Trilogy; Max Aub in French Camp; Victor Klemperer in Diaries; Jean Améry in Beyond Guilt and Atonement.