期刊名称：Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
印刷版ISSN：1982-3053
出版年度：2017
卷号：11
期号：21
页码：127-150
DOI：10.17851/1982-3053.11.21.127-150
语种：English
出版社：Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
摘要：Auschwitz has often been thought of as an indescribable event that is beyond all possible linguistic means of representation. Italian author Primo Levi (1919-1987) attempted to address this problem revealing the aporetic (and paradoxical) nature of the process of elaborating a literary testimony: impossible, but necessary. This article aims to analyse some of the ethical and epistemological issues that testimony of a traumatic event can raise for literature. The hypothesis is that the testimony, as Levi elaborated it, contains a lacuna or a void, which is in fact what constitutes it: while witnesses present the limit-experience out of obligation, they cease to convey others due to inability or incapacity. The argument here is that what makes a testimony on a traumatic event possible is its incomplete nature, which gives strength to the process of communicating limit-experiences.
