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Taemoignage En Raesistance

Taemoignage En Raesistance

Mesnard, Philippe

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 2234059984
ISBN13: 9782234059986
Publisher: Stock
Published: Feb 21 2022
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

The experience of the concentration camps is generally considered unspeakable. Yet numerous texts, works and films have tried to offer testimonies in various forms. Based on a wide ranging corpus, both literary and cinematic, Philippe Mesnard explores the forms of expression that are used by the witnesses, writers and artists. He distinguishes four principal forms of testimony: realist writing - a supposedly transparent form of expression (Vassili Grossman, David Rousset amongst others); 'transcendent' writing, that transposes reality onto a symbolic scene (as in Le dernier des Justes by André Schwartz-Bart or La vita e bella by Roberto Benigni); The 'critical form' that integrates loss and grief in its space (in Imre Kertész, Robert Antelme or Claude Lanzmann's works for example); and 'phatic' writing, that is emotional and unsettles language to express violence. These various forms create a culture of resistance against those who, in destroying man, also destroyed language. Philippe Mesnard offers a cogent, synthetic and thought-provoking analysis of the polyphonic resistance that the act of testifying creates, between distance and proximity.

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